John Edwards speaks about his health care plan at a town hall meeting in Dubuque IA. He emphasizes choice, continuity of coverage, offering competing coverage from the government and subsidizing coverage for the poor and middle class Americans. I think health care should be a top issue in the campaign and am glad to see that Edwards is putting forth a comprehensive plan. However, I think it is past time to take the private insurance companies out and begin to limit the AMA's influence over medical costs. Edwards addresses the administrative costs of insurance but does dot address outrageous fees being charged by doctors and medical facilities. Someone needs to start dealing with the cost side of this problem by putting caps on charges for medical procedures. The AMA abandoned patients economic issues a long time ago.
