Mrs. Edwards' Health-Care Attack On Hillary Misses Mark

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She's at it again. No, not Hillary. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Edwards, that is. Every time you turn around, she's attacking Hillary Clinton. And every time she does it, it makes news, as she must know it will. Mrs. Edwards gets more headlines than her husband, the candidate. And many of them aren't about substance, but are painfully personal, the sort of attacks that aren't going to get John Edwards elected president.

The latest is Mrs. Edwards' response, in an interview with The Associated Press, to Sen. Clinton's health-care plan, unveiled earlier this week. Mrs. Edwards certainly knows more than she'd like about the strengths and weaknesses of the health-care system in America, and she didn't take issue with any of the elements of the Clinton plan, the way so many Republicans have. Nor did she fault the Democratic front-runner, as some on the left have done, for failing to address the substantial problem of providing health care for illegal immigrants, many of whom rely on emergency rooms as their only source for doctors, thus tapping into the system at its most expensive point.

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Mrs. Edwards' Health-Care Attack On Hillary Misses Mark

No, Mrs. Edwards basically engaged in a little old-fashioned name- calling - in the process revealing the kind of naivete about the system that is precisely what caused Hilla...

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