Elizabeth Edwards Critical of Clinton’s Medicare Remarks
After the conclusion of the Des Moines Register’s Democratic Presidential debate, Senator John Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, spoke to reporters in the Spin Room. Mrs. Edwards attended the debate with her husband’s parents, Bobbie and Wallace Edwards.
Elizabeth Edwards set apart her husband’s plan for improving Medicare by criticizing Hillary Clinton’s explanation of how she would strengthen it. Clinton would negotiate with drug companies to lower part D prescription costs for seniors, but not reinvest the savings in Medicare, according to Mrs. Edwards. By comparison, her husband would use the money gained from negotiations to directly strengthen Medicare benefits for seniors, she said.
“She does not keep them in Medicare to strengthen Medicare,” Edwards said of Clinton. “She gave a completely wrong impression to the Iowa voters who were listening and the seniors who are a very big part of the Iowa caucus participation.”
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