Edwardscare: Like Obamacare, Only With More Totalitarianism

Cor blimey.  The frontrunning Democrats are just tripping over themselves in their efforts to one-up the unspeakable idiocy of each other's healthcare plans.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have of late engaged in a back-and-forth over their respective health care plans. Now John Edwards is swinging into the fray with a plan that is best summed up in a single word: Totalitarian.  Not making this up.

“I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”

“Evertime you go into contact with the helathcare system or the govenment you will be signed up.”

During a press avail following the event Edwards reiterated his mandate:

“Basically every time they come into contact with either the healthcare system or the government, whether it’s payment of taxes, school, going to the library, whatever it is they will be signed up.”

When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, "You don’t get that choice."

There are acres and acres of rational real estate to the right of Hillarycare (even the moderately less asinine Version 2.0), but her opponents insist in cramming into the narrow strip of socialist badlands to her left.  True, a pretty boy ambulance chaser is a dubious architect of healthcare reform that actually makes some kind of sense, but can't Fairweather Jack at least appreciate the unprincipled political expedience of tacking a few degrees to the right on this one?

Previously:  Obamacare: Like Hillarycare, Only With More Socialism

Update:  Sister Toldjah notes Edwards' totalitarian proclivities have been festering for a few months now.