Posted on 07/18/2009 7:37:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
‘The Cause of My Life’
Inside the fight for universal health care.
By Edward M. Kennedy
July 18, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jul 27, 2009
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Mary Jo is unfortunately unavailable for comment thanks to this poor excuse for a human being.
Time for Carousel and Teddie to “Renew”.
Mary Jo was unavailable for comment.
“that immobilizes a patient between two canvas slings... Nurses would regularly turn me over.”
Nurse sandwiches?
He does give a nursing scholarship in Moss's name every year, but other than that, you would think the hospital doesn't exist.
Not only does Kennedy have the shamelessness to write about Bayh’s pulling him to safety, he named his dog “Splash.” If Kennedy has never gone to Pennsylvania (I think it was) to dance on Mary Jo’s grave (”I’m alive and you’re not!”), I would be surprised.
You can be brain dead and still serve as a liberal democrat.
Seems to me the Massachusetts Democrat conventions are dangerous and should be banned before more people are killed.
Mr. Bayh as a leg up on you in the character department Ted, you fat fetid piece of crap. If he'd have taken a page from your playbook and walked away to go talk to his family lawyers you'd have been recycled into plant food a long time ago. ... and America would have been a better place.
He probably believes it will be that way. Just shows how stupid and out of touch he is.
TERM LIMITS NOW
His impending death should bring forth another round of those great Teddy Kenndy jokes from the past which have welled up every time the turd has tried to run for anything except his lordship’s hereditary family senatorship.
Time for the hospice...Obama said so. Oh...and by the way...crappy anniversary, Ted.
[But quality care shouldn’t depend on your financial resources]
Good, cause I personally want an infinite amount of high quality care. Thow in a pedicure, a Swedish massage and some Viagra and I’ll be a quality health care recipient for the rest of my life.
Joe Kennedy is responsible for Ted's PATHETIC existence! Has Ted been beamed up yet by the Obama
Health Care Czars?
Thow=Throw
So many typos, so little time
Except if he lives long enough; he nor other Congress critters will be participating in our plan. They know better.
How many violent and preventable deaths in this guy’s personal circle? A world without Ted Kennedy is a safer world.
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