Elizabeth Edwards stays neutral, but likes Clinton's health plan better

John Edwards is staying on the sidelines of the Democratic nomination fight so far, and his better half said this morning that she is unwilling as yet to endorse Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama either.

But Elizabeth Edwards, an outspoken advocate on healthcare issues, did say she prefers Clinton's reform plan to reach the estimated 47 million American without healthcare coverage.

Clinton and Obama have been jockeying on the issue for months -- Clinton pushing a plan requiring people to obtain insurance with subsidies so everyone can afford coverage, and Obama focusing more on affordability to achieve universal coverage, arguing that people won't get insurance unless they can pay for it.

"You need that universality in order to get the cost savings," Edwards said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "I just have more confidence in Senator Clinton's policy than Senator Obama's on this particular issue."

Both candidates have been assiduously courting Edwards since he dropped out of the race. When Clinton last week proposed creating a poverty czar, many saw that as reaching out to Edwards, who has made fighting poverty his calling and who, along with former Vice President Al Gore, is perhaps the highest-impact uncommitted Democrat.

In the interview, Elizabeth Edwards also said that she wouldn't be upset if the nomination battle went all the way to the August national convention and that Clinton and Obama would be a great joint ticket.