Edwards says a lot of good stuff. But I'm still not sold on him yet.

Okay, first of all, I am not a "one issue" voter. Far from it. But I find the approach to the matter of our current health care mess is a fairly good indication of a particular candidate's position.

This is from Edwards' web site:    CLICKY.

To me, this says "Band-Aids, patches, and duct-tape. But let's be sure to keep the insurance companies in the mix, or we might offend them."

And after specifying things like tax-credits and such, then he says,

"Once these steps have been taken, requiring all American residents to get insurance.

"Securing universal healthcare for every American will require the active involvement of millions of Americans."

In short, "Ante up, folks!"

I'm not happy with that!

Now, I have health care, both through my wife's insurance at work (pretty good bennies), and my own Medicare, so I'm in pretty good shape. But when I look at what various insurance companies are charging for anything vaguely near decent coverage—and when I talk to Americans, tourists, who have had occasion to make use of the health care systems in other countries and were often surprised to find them to be top qualitiy and free of charge—I get highly offended by the medieval, profit-oriented system we have!

Don Firth