John Edwards would make doctor visits mandatory

Field Marshal Edwards

Herr Edwards should throw in the towel. He has about as much chance of being president as I do. His latest noise is about health care. Not only would it be "free", but doctor visits would be mandatory. You can't make this stuff up. Fox News:

"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.

Forcing people to go to the doctor? This is liberalism with the PR veneer pulled away.