Elizabeth Edwards, Kay Hagan, Emily's List & MoveOn

North Carolina's own Elizabeth Edwards has teamed up with with Moveon.Org and Emily’s List to promote electing more women to Congress.

In an email sent today, Elizabeth writes:

Health care is an issue that is really close to my heart. And I know it matters to a lot of Americans, particularly mothers. But time and again, Republicans have blocked progress on expanding health care—most recently the expansion of the children's health insurance program—and on so many other important issues.

That's why we need to elect more progressive women in Congress in 2008, to stand with President Obama on healthcare and other key issues.

MoveOn is working with EMILY's List to highlight some great candidates like Kay Hagan, a legislator in my home state of North Carolina who is running for U.S. Senate. It is a race that the pundits and politicos had previously ignored, but no longer: Last week the Washington Post rated it as one of the most winnable Senate races for Democrats in the country.1

Elizabeth has oft discussed the disparities women face, particulary with regard to healthcare, her number one issue. Continuing to take on McCain's disasterous healthcare "plan," Elizabeth writes today in a post at the Wonk Room about the centerpiece of McCain’s plan: the individual market:

Senator John McCain’s health plan is based on the idea that everyone should be on their own to buy their health insurance on the individual market. And it’s an approach fundamentally at odds with the point of health insurance: that we share risks. People with preexisting conditions, like McCain and myself, would pay much more for health insurance under his health plan, if we could get coverage at all.

Elizabeth, a champion of womens issues and healthcare is also partnering with Obama on healthcare and despite all of the talk that it’s John Edwards who is at the top of Obama’s Veep list, others are speculating it will be Elizabeth. ;)