Edwards' Health-Care Plan Requires Visits to Doctor

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TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Sunday that his universal health care 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."

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Edwards' Health-Care Plan Requires Visits to Doctor

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an eff...

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