Why the Democrats Should Call It ‘KennedyCare’

Pajamas Media ^ | August 28 | Melissa Clouthier

[AJKauf]

All in all, no matter how this legislation ends up in terms of content or fate, it’s a towering pile of doo-doo and it will be decided in the Senate. Why not name it for Senator Kennedy? Either way, pass or fail, the bill symbolizes everything that Senator Kennedy represented.

It should also be noted that Senator Kennedy, like all fabulously wealthy people, had nothing to gain or lose with this legislation. This law, should it pass, will be for the great unwashed masses subjected to government-run health care because their businesses will save money with the public option. Senators, as the Democrats voted in committee, will still get their own special plan.

Senator Kennedy would not have been beholden to his namesake legislation. He would still have gone to the best hospitals for care — maybe on some Caribbean island at some point as doctors and innovative health care providers look for cheaper, less regulated ways to deliver stellar care. No one likes to be sick and in the hospital now. It would be abominably insulting for a bigwig to be a number in a line in a hallway in a crumbling hospital with an imported doctor, waiting for eight hours to eight days. A rich person can go to prison for that kind of care today. Under KennedyCare, he would get on a private jet and go find the care he’s accustomed to receiving.

[bray]

Drown KennedyCare.

Pray for America

[gwilhelm56]

Terminal Geriatric care would consist of a RIDE in a ‘67 OLDSMOBILE.

[Iron Munro]

In memory of Kennedy it should be relabeled as Peon Care.
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[C210N]

Wouldn't mind it if KennedyCare comes down with terminal brain cancer. This cancer has metastasized. Not sure if KennedyCare is the primary site, or if it is the metastasis.

[kabar]

We should always refer to it as ObamaCare no matter how the Dems try to change the language.

[Need4Truth]

Should the legislation fail, it will be because the American people have rejected the notion that the government should solve all problems from cradle to grave. And so it will be laid to rest, along with the man who represented it most, an ideology whose time has past.

Amen. Bury old Teddy and his KennedyCare. Don't let the dead bury the living in this thing.

[P.O.E.]

Attention: Please keep moving to the left!

[EverOnward]

"Terminal Geriatric care would consist of a RIDE in a ‘67 OLDSMOBILE."

Ah yes, we could all expect the Mary Jo Kopechne Treatment under KennedyCare.

[eleni121]

They should really call it NIXON Care—Nixon was the first to propose universal “health” care and so many other disgusting things.

“I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health-insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses,” Nixon told America.

Oh and we should thank him for the EPA...

[ozark hilljilly]

Fine, they can call it KennedyCare...I’ll still call it Slavery.

[gwilhelm56]

One OLDSMOBILE per OLDFART would still be cheaper than 90 days in Hospice, and definitely cheaper than a round of Radiation and CHEMO.

And if you have a little more LIFE left than the PANEL says you have ..use the car for your ESCAPE!!!

Or, there’s always RENEWAL at the CAROUSEL!

[R0CK3T]

Mary Joe Care, the Left institutionalizes the same care and concern that Teddy lavished upon her.

[MizSterious]

We could, but much of it is actually Emmanuel (Zeke) Care, with a dash of Daschle thrown in for good measure.

[Mrs. Don-o]

KopechneCare

Motto: "We'll get back to you when we can."

[gwilhelm56]

as we back away (a little) from HIstory, McLAME and GW are looking more like NIXON. Nixon while good on Foreign policy, was a borderline SOCIALIST with economic and domestic policy. Even tho LBJerkoff didn’t give Nixon much to work with.

[Christian4Bush]

Well, considering that one is dead and can’t enact it...and one is alive and CAN...let’s stay on point.

[SpeedRacer]

In memory of Kennedy it should be relabeled as Peon Care.

Hmm...I read that as "Pee-on" care. Seems more appropriate.

But hey, not something to get ""wee weed up" about!

[eleni121]

The 3 gop’ers you refer to are/were bad on foreign policy too. They fell right into place with the groupthink of the internationalists and so-called pragmatists...and relegate/d “morality” to the trashbin of history.

[SunkenCiv]

Either way, pass or fail, the bill symbolizes everything that Senator Kennedy represented. It should also be noted that Senator Kennedy, like all fabulously wealthy people, had nothing to gain or lose with this legislation. This law, should it pass, will be for the great unwashed masses subjected to government-run health care because their businesses will save money with the public option. Senators, as the Democrats voted in committee, will still get their own special plan. Senator Kennedy would not have been beholden to his namesake legislation.