For those of you who think that government-paid and managed healthcare would be great, consider the power that bureaucrats would have under John Edwards' plan.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal healthcare proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

''It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,'' he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. ``If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.''

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat ''the first trace of problem.'' Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.

Edwards said his mandatory healthcare plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

''The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death,'' he said.

Got that. The government will decide when you MUST see the doctor.

So yes, ladies, you get that Pap smear and mammogram -- in fact, you MUST get that Pap smear and mammogram. And I'll be REQUIRED to see the podiatrist to check out my feet since I'm diabetic. No longer will Americans be responsible for their medical decisions -- some bureaucrat will tell you what doctors visits you need to make, and presumably when and where you have to go.

No telling what the penalty will be for not keeping to the governmentally-dictated medical regime.

I don't know about you, but it appears that the only decision that the government won't be intruding upon is the liberal sacrament of abortion -- after all, they tell us that's a medical decision to be made between patient and doctor.

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