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”.)
His early support of Obama is a quid pro quo for his desire for Socialized Medicine.
Ok, look at this picture.
we haven't fixed SSI, Medicaid, Medicare and GWB's Senior Drug Program is another budget busting entitlement, and they want to add one more?
At the same time they won't drill or build windmills off Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard.
We are royally screwed...
Oh well, this will really effect the only bright spot in the Detroit Regional Economy, Canadians coming over for care they can't get with their screwed up socialized medicine. Now they will have no where to go....
Oh well, Poland and the Czech Republic are looking better every day....
Under his plan , the same crowd running the driver’s license dept would have told him that he was fat, alcoholic, and too old to spend limited resources on . Instead, he racks up a 500,000-600,000 bill by getting air lifted to a Boston hospital for ER surgery. The nerve of this learjet leftist to use his diseased body as a PR Prop to peddle limited care when he demands the best at any cost.
I've found two books to be especially helpful in combating those who support government-run healthcare (and that's what it is, regardless if you call it single-payer, affordable, or universal healthcare — it is all socialist by design and run by the government).
The first book is, “Your Doctor is Not In” by Dr. Jane Orient. This paints a great picture of the effect of national and state regs on the local doctor.
The second book is, “Lives at Risk” by Goodman, Musgrave, and Herrick. This book, though a bit deep in detail, paints an impressive and exacting picture of how government-run healthcare in other countries has failed miserably and the effect that that failure has had on both patients and the medical field.
No, I have no positive feelings whatsoever for this particular Kennedy, and relatively few such feelings about any of the others.
I was at my Cardiologist’s yesterday and he was telling me about a patient he had just seen. He said it was a 76 year old man from England. He needed a pacemaker and because he was 76, they would not give him one, so he and his family came to America to get one. I asked my Doc if he was going to get one. He replied that he had just arranged it. Being 70, I don’t look forward to dying on a gurney in a hallway... even if it is FREE!!
If Americans had the kind of health care 'Senator' Kennedy receives, we'd be dead.
Ours would mirror Canada's where a cancerous tumor sufferer is given a year before treatment can be administered and lives ten months.
America must fight this complete descent into socialism with tooth and nail.
Yesterday the Governor signed a $1.00/pk extra tax on cigarettes to pay for MA mandatory health care....
It’s for the illegals.
Why isn't the mainstream media screaming about this affront to the elderly and the veterans?
From the MOAA websites...
“They had months to work out a relatively simple deal to prevent a 10.6% cut in Medicare payments from taking effect on July 1 and to prevent cutting off Medicare coverage for hundreds of thousands of Medicare-eligible speech and physical therapy patients on that date.
But they chose to play political chicken with seniors’ care, and their collective hard-headedness prevented anything from getting done. Having failed in timely action, Congress took a week’s vacation over Independence Day and promised to fix things when they return....
Medicare payments to doctors will be cut 10.6% starting July 1. Also as of July 1, speech, physical or occupational therapy patients for whom Medicare has already paid at least $1,810 for therapy in 2008 will have further Medicare payments for that care stopped....
This isn’t the first time Congress has failed to stop a Medicare payment cut. In 2006, Congress missed the deadline...”
Converting to socialism, one bad idea at a time.
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?
“This is Ted’s Legacy and Swan Song.”
EXACTLY.
And they will use his exit as the stage to launch it. Probably name it after him. And the MSM will not whisper a word of the decidedly NON-universal healthcare that Ted sought in his waning months.
“Abortion, but no guns, fences, school or health care choices for you peons!”
Ted Kennedy and the rest of your social, economic and political superiors
Considering his health....he shouldn’t be attempting an legislation...IMO.
Remember the Kennedy sponsored education bill “No child left behind?” Let’s hope “No patient left behind” is just as successful. Sarcasm now turned off.
No kidding, and to expect him to return to Congress in the Fall, ridiculous.
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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