In Kennedy's mind, all of these achievements paled next to his long-deferred dream of national health insurance. When President Nixon proposed a plan for universal coverage that would have delighted Democrats in later years, Kennedy, who long backed a government plan, led the opposition, a move he later regretted. So he moved to partial reforms, but even here he was often disappointed. His hopes of a major restructuring were dashed in the early 1990s with the defeat of Bill and Hillary Clinton's health-care initiative.Ace suggests we honor Kennedy by opposing universal health care just like he did.
So let's win one for Teddy. Let us call ourselves the Ted Kennedy Memorial Single-Payer Opposition and Capitalist Private Health-Care Supporting Movement.Just yesterday on the weekly radio interview that I do for KHND in North Dakota I mentioned that if Ted Kennedy had been on the health plan he had been promoting he probably would have been dead months ago (I made that statement about 12 hours before he actually died). Had he been restricted to using Obamacare the expensive experimental procedures he received to prolong his life probably wouldn't have been approved.
If you really want to honor his legacy, don't pass Obamacare. Give every American the same health plan he had.
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…like we’ve all been saying, it’s not a good proposition. Look at Canada and all other countries that have this type of health reform…it’s not beneficial to folks who truly need good and quick health attention.
obama looks so disappointing after Kennedy's death..
Give every American the same health plan he had.
So rick, you want the government to give us money so we can get healthcare?
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