one thing that bothers me about Edwards is that his healthcare plan mandates everybody to have health insurance. That itself is not a problem, but in the past, whenever I hear the reasoning for the mandate, they compare it to car insurance - 'everybody is required to have car insurance, so why not health insurance?' - they don't realize that people choose to drive, thus taking on the responsibility to pay insurance. People are not given such an option when it comes to being alive and health care costs.