Under Republican Sen. John McCain's health plan, he and Elizabeth Edwards have something in common, Ms. Edwards has explained in several contexts.

The text of McCain's proposals suggests that neither his melanoma nor her breast cancer would be covered, because both are pre-existing conditions.

She was more pointed in The Wonk Room, a blog sponsored by The Center for American Progress.

Wife of former Democratic presidential candidate and vice presidential nominee John Edwards, she wrote:

... I do understand exactly how devastating it will be to people who have the health conditions with which the Senator and I are confronted (melanoma for him, breast cancer for me) but do not have the financial resources we have. In very unconfusing language: they are left outside the clinic doors.

On MSNBC's Morning Joe (4.2.08), Ms. Edwards elucidated those points and others:

McCain and his staff argue that his plan is more efficient, and it is, although the savings are captured by way of increased human pain and shortened lives.