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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ping list please?
I think when most people here Universal Health Care, they think that nothing will change except the government will pick up the tab when they go to the doctor/hospital (not that I’m okay with that either). I don’t think they realize just how involved the government gets in the process and many of them are enthralled by the idea of never paying for check-ups and hospital visits. This socialist welfare mentality has to stop, unfortunately it has taken us nearly a century to get to where we are so the prospects of changing so rapidly are grim.
Excellent videos. Not only inept, but evil, when it’s against the law to pay for your own. That’s Hillary Health Care. Doctors and patients who tried to go outside the system would be subject to prosecution for bribery. Pie-eyed libs don’t know what they’re asking for.
Done. Welcome aboard.
Of course these people are criminals by edict of state power, other than than, they are making people happy.
If we had a national health care plan in place as envisioned by Sen. Kennedy, do you think someone his age and physical condition and having the same brain cancer would have been able to receive under the plan the sophisticated brain surgery the good Senator just received or even had the choice of going to a specialist in another state?Sorry for the litteral answer to a hypothetical question.
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