Posted on 07/19/2009 4:30:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
In 1964, I was flying with several companions to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention when our small plane crashed and burned short of the runway. My friend and colleague in the Senate, Birch Bayh, risked his life to pull me from the wreckage. Our pilot, Edwin Zimny, and my administrative assistant, Ed Moss, didn't survive. With crushed vertebrae, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung, I spent months in New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. To prevent paralysis, I was strapped into a special bed that immobilizes a patient between two canvas slings. Nurses would regularly turn me over so my lungs didn't fill with fluid. I knew the care was expensive, but I didn't have to worry about that. I needed the care and I got it.
Now I face another medical challenge. Last year, I was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Surgeons at Duke University Medical Center removed part of the tumor, and I had proton-beam radiation at Massachusetts General Hospital. I've undergone many rounds of chemotherapy and continue to receive treatment. Again, I have enjoyed the best medical care money (and a good insurance policy) can buy.
But quality care shouldn't depend on your financial resources, or the type of job you have, or the medical condition you face. Every American should be able to get the same treatment that U.S. senators are entitled to.
This is the cause of my life. It is a key reason that I defied my illness last summer to speak at the Democratic convention in Denver—to support Barack Obama, but also to make sure, as I said, "that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
His Excellency the Royal Idiot, the Duke of Delmont, Sir Rhosis of Liver, Count of Cutty, Baron of Beer, Chivas of Regal, and Captain of the S.S. Oldsmobile
Four pages of liberal drivel ghost written (almost literally) by Bob Shrum published in the Libtard rag of record. Ted recounts several tear jerking tales, promises no tax increases associated with Obamacare, and concludes with this:
At another Democratic convention, in arguing for this cause, I spoke of the insurance coverage senators and members of Congress provide for themselves. That was 1980. In the last year, I've often relied on that Congressional insurance. My wife, Vicki, and I have worried about many things, but not whether we could afford my care and treatment. Each time I've made a phone call or held a meeting about the health bill—or even when I've had the opportunity to get out for a sail along the Massachusetts coast—I've thought in an even more powerful way than before about what this will mean to others.
Enjoy.
If the Swimmer can do for HealthCare what he did to immigration law we are all going to need to find a new planet to live on.
The only thing to smile about in all this drivel is your list of royal titles!
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What’s your real reason, Kennedy? It certainly has nothing to do with the well being of country or its people you sold down the toilet.
Rx for Ted Kennedy: 1 bottle of scotch, an Oldsmobile and a drive across a bridge.....solo.
Go to hell, Kennedy.
He’s trying to do to America what he did to Mary Jo.
Drown us all in a sea of Marxist madness.
Just another liberal appeal to “do something” because the current system has gaps.
Once the government takes control, you are not allowed to complaing about any gaps.
The senator does not address the same plans as implemented worldwide and how they have failed in every case.
It is a great illustration of how liberals have grand ideas, but flawed implementation.
The Cause of My Life. By Ted Kennedy. Real answer = Ted Kennedy’s pleasure.
If I read his legislation correctly, shouldn’t he be getting the visit from the death nurse? Why spend money on a terminal patient? Let’s save a million or so on his sorry carcass.
Coming on the 40th anniversary of Chappaquiddick, this is quite a legacy change this person is looking for. At the same time, I look forward to Ted Kennedy getting his eternal reward: drowning in the back seat of an Oldsmobile while the drunken driver staggers home to find a lawyer.
Teddy: The only way I would believe in your ‘Health Care’ would be if the entire Federal Government were REQUIRED to participate! Otherwise, just shut up and contemplate your various other life events!
He still alive? He must have received much better medical care over the last year than what he wants for the rest of us!
Insurance that provides the kind of care we won't have with universal coverage.
Top Grossing Films of the week:
LIPO for Lupe: RomneyCare boots 30,000 legal immigrants off of coverage. Not a word on the illegals.
Moby Ted: Voting by Proxy? You can vote if you don't show up? Does he still get paid?
You bet your life: Socialized healthcare, brought to you by Obama Motors Credit Banking Finance Service.
Land of the Lost: Watch as Demosaurus and the SoSosaurus La Raza make mincemeat and eat the lost and frightened RINO's whole!
This was the flight fat Ted asked his fathers pilots to fly him and entourage in Joe plane. The pilots said no, the fog was to thick. Ted may of threatened them, but they didn’t work for him, but his dad so they basically told Fat Boy to scr$W. So Ted called around and found a sucker.
Once again Fat Boy leaves out his being the major actor in an accident.
Ted would be dead by now if HE had Universal health care. If these parasites love it so much give it to them and thier families for the rest of Obama’s visit in the Whitehouse and then vote on it for the American people.
Just a few drive-by ramblings of a fella who lived through that era, albeit as a youngster?
"Camelot," remembered with pattering hearts & bated breath by the press, and promoted by various hangers-on who basked in the Kennedy limelight was a myth as it developed, and a fairy tale in retrospect.
My parents knew about and discussed the drugs and the women and the fraudulent votes, and other corruption- the press, then as now, covered up for favored Sons, and never let facts get in the way of their beloved "narrative."
I mainly remember JFK as the guy that nearly started two nuclear wars, and betrayed Cuban patriots,
Teddy? If it had been you or me, we'd still be under the jail.
If he was covered under the presently proposed gov’t health care plan he would have been encouraged to forgo medical care for his current illness. He would have been forced to attend a seminar telling him to opt for death rather than be a burden to his family.
He is totally disgusting. He should be ashamed.
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