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RALEIGH – Common Cause North Carolina hosted Elizabeth Edwards at a luncheon in Raleigh Saturday. The nonprofit public interest lobby organization held the event to honor Edwards for her work promoting health care reform.

Edwards is also promoting her book in the shadow of recent controversial headlines about her husband, two-time presidential candidate and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, and in the midst of her struggle with breast caner.

“I'm no worse, maybe even a little better than I was two and a half years ago when people were saying I was on death's door, so I am feeling pretty good about that,” she said.

The luncheon was held at the Campbell Law School in Raleigh. Edwards remarked about health care issues she says impact everyone, like the recent preventative services task force recommendations to begin mammograms at 50 instead of 40.

“I'm unhappy that they used this blanket kind of suggestion that might be used by insurance companies, frankly, to deny mammograms at an earlier age when they might be needed,” she said.

Edwards, who has long been a proponent for reform and supports the Senate's current reform bill, also talked about the idea of allowing states to opt in or out of the controversial public option. She said it's “devised to placate people who have objections to the public option.”

She said she hoped to convince the crowd of more than 100 of those ideals and also push for health care reform.

“I feel like I am not alone on this,” she said. “I feel like the country is all together on this. The form may vary among different people, but the need for the reform doesn't vary.”