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Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), shown talking about health care in Detroit in June, gave details this week about his plan to fight HIV/AIDS if elected president. Edwards said he would set aside more money to fight the disease in other parts of the world and would create programs in the United States to treat blacks and Hispanics, who are more likely to have the disease than whites.
(By Carlos Osorio -- Associated Press)
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Obama, Clinton Gain Support
Barack Obama picked up the endorsement yesterday of Gordon Fischer, a well-known Iowa Democrat, as his campaign stepped up its two-pronged effort to raise money before the end of the quarter and prove he is best poised to win the general election.
"The reason I support Senator Obama is that, like all Democrats, I am desperate to win the White House, and I am absolutely convinced that Senator Obama is the candidate who has the best chance against any of the Republicans in the field," Fischer said in a conference call with reporters yesterday morning. While Fischer praised Obama, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) also had her own big-ticket endorsement to announce: Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), a former '08 candidate himself, announced his support for Clinton yesterday, after it was reported over the weekend that he would be giving her the nod.
-- Anne E. Kornblut
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Edwards Wants More Funds
John Edwards laid out a detailed plan to fight both a national and international problem: the spread of HIV/AIDS. In a health-care event in Washington, the candidate called for increased funding to provide medicine to people around the world who have the disease, as well as targeted programs in the United States focused on blacks and Hispanics, who suffer infection at higher rates than whites. Edwards also called for a Cabinet-level post on global poverty and criticized the Bush administration for focusing too much on abstinence as a way to combat AIDS.
At the forum, the former trial lawyer, who has received millions of dollars in donations from fellow attorneys in his two presidential runs, said lawsuits against doctors were not a huge cause of increased health-care costs, but he also called for experts to certify that a case has merit before the suit goes to court. "I think that the bulk of the problem is created when cases are filed in the legal system that should never be filed," Edwards said.
-- Perry Bacon Jr.
