Barack Obama's Health Care Plan

Here's the story I wrote on it for TIME.com. Since I filed that story, I've heard from rival campaigns attacking it, mostly on the grounds that it does not guarantee universal coverage. To their credit, the Edwards campaign is willing to go on the record. This from Edwards spokesman Mark Kornblau:

John Edwards has a detailed plan to make health care coverage more affordable and truly universal. He believes that incremental measures are not enough. Any plan that does not cover all Americans is simply inadequate.

Here's a link to Obama's plan.

UPDATE: The Clinton campaign weighs in:

Clinton Campaign Policy Director Neera Tanden today released the following statement:
"We commend Senator Obama for entering the healthcare debate and supporting incentives to make healthcare more affordable; Senator Clinton has long fought to expand healthcare coverage and initiated the State Children's Health Insurance Program that now covers 6 million children and has led the fight in the Senate to pass health information technology.

"Senator Clinton believes that in addition to making healthcare more accessible, we have to achieve true universal healthcare so that every American has health care coverage."