You have got to think this will be the Ted Kennedy
Health Reform Act, because he's a beloved figure
and he's championed the issue for so long
Posted on 07/02/2008 4:55:53 AM PDT by Zakeet
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office has begun convening a series of meetings involving a wide array of healthcare specialists to begin laying the groundwork for a new attempt to provide universal healthcare, according to participants.
The discussions signal that Kennedy, who instructed aides to begin holding the meetings while he is in Massachusetts undergoing treatment for brain cancer, intends to work vigorously to build bipartisan support for a major healthcare initiative when he returns to Washington in the fall.
Those involved in the discussions said Kennedy believes it is extremely important to move as quickly as possible on overhauling the healthcare system after the next president takes office in January in order to capitalize on the momentum behind a new administration.
Kennedy was an early endorser of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee who is also a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which Kennedy chairs.
Obama's Senate staff has attended the roundtable discussions. If Obama is elected, Kennedy's effort to identify points of agreement among senators could smooth the way for the new administration to press ahead on universal healthcare, which Obama has promised to implement within four years.
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You have got to think this will be the Ted Kennedy
Health Reform Act, because he's a beloved figure
and he's championed the issue for so long
I hope the Kennedy brothers meet together soon.
Just a reminder of this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038721/posts
“Sen. Ted Kennedy, newly diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor, had searched the nation for the best neurosurgeon to remove the growth — and he wanted Friedman.”
This pantload is the epitome of hypocrisy. How would he feel when his universal healthcare rendered him DEAD?
He wants to force the rest of us into a healthcare system that would be unable or unwilling to provide “the masses” with the same medical treatment he received: the best in the country, at the front of the line, because he is an elitist tyrant.
Hey Oldsmobile Teddy, why didn't you have your tumor removed in Canada, or Cuba, or England? I sincerely wish you had.
Legacy building.
Oregon State would have told Kennedy to forget about treating the cancer and sent him to the Assisted Suicide dept - just like they do to some other cancer patients.
Was Maryjoe covered?
He used his sympathy from his brother’s death to shove the “immigration reform” that has ruined this country down our throats. So now he’s going to use his own death to shove “health care reform” down our throats?
Breaking into song....
Mistakes? I’ve made a few. But then again....
But then again... what difference does it make I’m a Kennedy!
Universal Health Care = Government Mandated Healthcare Rationing.
Pass it on.
Exactly. I suppose he figures he can get Communist Health Care passed and they will boo-hoo cause he dies and stick his name on it.
From which he and his kind will, of course, be exempt...
Michael Douglas answers a question with the line 'Does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?"
I challenged someone that supports socialist healthcare with this:
The systems are failing in other countries, there are 2 yr waits for checkups, people are waiting in ambulances outside of emergency rooms for 6 hours or more, doctors are pursuing other occupations, etc.
Now, are the people that implemented these systems in the other country stupid or incompetent?
Are the people that will implement the system here in the USA that much smarter?
See, liberals, as shown by their policies, DO believe they are smarter than anyone else who has ever lived, and smarter than God Himself.
But, when confronted with this logical observation, they understand that it is unsustainable and indefensible.
BTW, the person in question above then said, well, maybe the gov’t isn’t the right entity to implement a universal health system.
(Uh, no other entity has the authority to “implement a universal system”.)
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