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  • Posted By: shoyt_2001 @ 07/20/2009 12:24:07 AM

    Obama does not want special treatment for old people Ted. That means you would not have all of your special brain tumor treatments so that you would still be alive. As far as Obama is concerned, old people should just go ahead and die. Mr. Kennedy, you are old and that would include you.

    Now will you think twice about this health care that you seem ready to ram through, so that the rest of us will have to suffer the consequences of a few people who are afraid to say No to Obama? Those few people, in the Senate and Congress, are supposed to represent the People who elected them...not what you or Obama want.

    We will be voting them all out.

  • Posted By: shoyt_2001 @ 07/20/2009 12:18:47 AM

    Kennedy, you have no voice in this because you know that you are never, ever going to have to live with this system you want so much, nor will your family members.

    You have done much evil to this country and we do not need another chapter written by you, for health care or anything else.. The sooner you quit "working for the people", the better off the people will be.

  • Posted By: gliderpilot @ 07/20/2009 12:07:41 AM

    The problem with universal health care is somebody has to pay for it. Congress is finding that out now. The CBO, an arm of the government, even concluded that universal health care would slant the cost curve up, not down as the president said he would insist on.

    Universal health care has a nice ring, but the reality would be less pleasant. The quality of medical care we now get would be no more. There would be long wait times for treatment and rationing of treatment.

  • Posted By: Freedom Fan @ 07/19/2009 11:52:43 PM

    Forty years after being one of the pioneers of socialized medicine [in Quebec, Claude] Castonguay's commission advocates both an increased role for private enterprise in medicine and increased public investment in the socialized system both through taxes and through user fees. Castonguay was quoted as saying "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."
    -Wikipedia

    Be careful what you wish for America.

  • Posted By: Just Tex @ 07/19/2009 11:50:17 PM

    Once again, Mary Jo Kopechne is not available to make any remarks, regarding Senator Kennedy's comments made here.

  • Posted By: POWinCA @ 07/19/2009 11:42:04 PM

    Shut up Teddy! You and your wealthy family have always had, all your lives, first class health care. At no time in your life did you ever have to sit next to a flithy, stinking bum in a doctor's office. At no time in your life did you ever have to wait months for care. At no time in your life did you get the doctors who graduated last in their classes from medical school. When your brand of universal health care is passed, you will still have a private room while the rest of us will share a room with a drunken derelict who wandered in front of someone's car. People like you will always get the liver transplants while the rest of us wait in line. You are not fighting so that poor people can get the same medical coverage as YOU. You are fighting so that MY health care, which I pay for through my labor and which you want to tax, is spread to the people who do no work. Leave our health care system alone. Your doing has already done so much harm to the private system. You and all your limousine liberal friends like George Soros, Warren Buffett, Peter Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, the Clintons, the Obamas, et al can dig deeply into your OWN wallets and pay for the health insurance of people who don't have it. It's too bad Mary Jo Kopechne didn't have Kennedy Insurance.

  • Posted By: DL13 @ 07/19/2009 11:19:08 PM

    I will be the first to agree that there are problems with our existing system, but this looks like they are trying to use a sledgehammer to swat a fly on the wall. The damage this does to our economy and society will be far greater than the good we receive from it. The Democrats are touting how great the health care is in Europe and Canada. If you are one of those that thinks Canadian Socialized Health Care is so great, take a look at this video of their system from Pajamas TV. It is a little lengthy, but sooo enlightening: hotair.com/archives/2009/07/14/video-crowders-magnum-opus-on-canadacare/

  • Posted By: Freedom Fan @ 07/19/2009 11:14:06 PM

    Yes, with government-run health care you may not need to worry about bankruptcy unless you pay taxes, but you could become quite dead:

    Tom Coburn, a physician ... says if America had established a government-run health care system like Canada???s or Britain???s 10 years ago, we???d have 1 million fewer Americans alive today. That???s based on increased life expectancy for Americans. Says Coburn:

    ???Our survival rates on cancer, malignancies and coronary artery disease,??? he says, ???are so far better because we have available technology and acute intervention, as well as prevention, that those countries don???t have.???

    -"Government health(non)care looms. Are we sick of it yet?", Orange County Register, July 18th, 2009, by Mark Landsbaum


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  • Posted By: Freedom Fan @ 07/19/2009 11:14:01 PM

    Yes, with government-run health care you may not need to worry about bankruptcy unless you pay taxes, but you could become quite dead:

    Tom Coburn, a physician ... says if America had established a government-run health care system like Canada???s or Britain???s 10 years ago, we???d have 1 million fewer Americans alive today. That???s based on increased life expectancy for Americans. Says Coburn:

    ???Our survival rates on cancer, malignancies and coronary artery disease,??? he says, ???are so far better because we have available technology and acute intervention, as well as prevention, that those countries don???t have.???

    -"Government health(non)care looms. Are we sick of it yet?", Orange County Register, July 18th, 2009, by Mark Landsbaum


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  • Posted By: jsanderssr @ 07/19/2009 10:40:37 PM

    kennedy can go to hell.

  • Posted By: Power2ThePeople @ 07/19/2009 10:09:47 PM

    Let's look at the term: healthcare. it's disembodied. you can't poke it with a stick, wrap your mind around it..it's generic. now let's look at reform. do we have a definition set out and agreed uoon in order to achieve it? Political rheotic dressed in the words of compassion that make us citizens who want it look like "better' people than those of us who don't. Doesn't sound too healthy to me.

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 07/19/2009 10:01:48 PM

    His cause of his life time has been to disarm law abiding Americans and force education to accept Big Government mandates! why won't he tell us about the other crash?

  • Posted By: btskidz @ 07/19/2009 6:48:41 PM

    Mary Jo Kopechne could have used the best medical care money (and a good insurance policy) can buy but Senator Kennedy saw to it that she would never have that chance. How can anyone take this man seriously about anything?

    • Posted By: lebec @ 07/19/2009 8:00:01 PM

      Because he is right about health care.
      Given your lack of response to the subject, how can I take you serious?

      • Posted By: Quid Pro Quo @ 07/19/2009 9:18:18 PM

        He is wrong about the way they are going about it. The non-partisan Director of the Congressional Budget Office Douglas Elmendorf said as much this last Tuesday: "We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount. On the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health-care costs."

        I'll trust Elmendorf over Kennedy any day. I don't trust Kennedy for a lot of reasons, including Chappaquiddick. I'm thankful he didn't get his way with his amnesty bill a few years ago. He was wrong on that too.

  • Posted By: boredwell @ 07/18/2009 8:51:33 PM

    If Congress is to pass a bill on health care, I doubt, given the largess of the anti-reform lobbies, it will amount to anything constructive. The mindset, whether it is wholly national or endemic to our representatives, I don't know, is one which alternately values and devalues federal "subsidies" depending on the needs, differences and interests of those who would or would not benefit. If Medicare, Medicaid and SSI are considered not only valuable but vital to every American as quintessential safety nets, then why can't the same concept be broadened to include us all in developing a system of universal health care? It's mindset. I've often heard those opposed to universal health care say to the uninsured, "Quit whiny. Go get a job like everybody else. And pay for it like everybody else. " Maybe, our failure to perceive, let alone empathize with this critical mass, in combination with our philosophical parameters dictates that we maintain a negative attitude toward health care when it comes to deciding if it's a "privilege" rather than a "right" for ALL.

    • Posted By: bobojake @ 07/19/2009 9:09:40 PM

      teddy when you ,obama, reid, pelosi, scfhummmmmmmmer, dodd, sign on the dotted line for the same healthcare you want me to have I will buy in . OTHERWISE SHOVE YOUR FONEY HEALTHCARE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE AND TAKE OBAMA WITH YOU. YOU WON'T NEED NO OVERPRICED SOLAR PANELS OR WINDMILLS THERE.

    • Posted By: Sandcrab1612 @ 07/19/2009 12:20:50 AM

      Right are given to us through the US COnstitution, if healthcare is to be a right then use Article 5 to ammend the Constitution to make it a right, this step would get rid of the constitutional arguement that it is not a right.

      • Posted By: Kitri12 @ 07/19/2009 12:35:57 AM

        The Government and the Constitution do not give us our rights! They were instituted to preserve them!

        The rest of the "free world" imitate our constitution, and you would change it and undermine it in order to get healthcare?

        How magnanimous of you all.

  • Posted By: bobojake @ 07/19/2009 9:08:31 PM

    teddy when you ,obama, reid, pelosi, scfhummmmmmmmer, dodd, sign on the dotted line for the same healthcare you want me to have I will buy in . OTHERWISE SHOVE YOUR FONEY HEALTHCARE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE AND TAKE OBAMA WITH YOU. YOU WON'T NEED NO OVERPRICED SOLAR PANELS OR WINDMILLS THERE.

  • Posted By: fdrrules @ 07/19/2009 10:11:43 AM

    the ignorance of the conservative is overwhelming,they have destroyed America with their support of global free trade started under reagan.lack of business regualations leading to the banking collapse and calls for no drug regulation leading to thousands of deaths.The trouble with the conservatives facist corporation policies is that as non human beings they reespect money but not human life.Every country in the civilized world has universal health care and its better then ours and they pay much ,much less but facts and truth never bothered the non thinking conservative.who worries only about profit.that being said Obamas and kennedys plan is a major dissapointment in that its not universal health care.It does nothing to control cost or make it affordable for working people.or guarenteeing health care to people with serious conditions.or stopping private for profit,medical insureres from denying claims.If this is Ted Kennedys life dream,he has failed and despite the moronic name calling conservative,Mr. kennedy has done more for this country then any drunk George Bush or senile ronald reagan who have destroyed this country with their global free trade and needless costly wars and business deregulation costing countless lifes.We need true universal health care and Obamas plan isn't.It will fail because of conservative Republicans and democrats like Baccus and then once again brain dead conservatives can point to another failed democratic plan which they caused

    • Posted By: sprues2 @ 07/19/2009 10:37:50 AM

      It really is a shame, that we will have to drag you kicking and screaming, to safety. Poetic justice would see you get a universal health care sysytem, like the ones you profess are wonderful.

      • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 07/19/2009 12:04:49 PM

        Ahhh, its out now, the RepubliCONs, the party that has no ideas, can't cooperate on the national agenda, tries to obstruct every bill on the hill, wants to impose its health care vision on us. No, thanks. Conservatives have a proven track record of not being able to govern in the WH for eight years, and a little longer than in the House. Letting them dictate a national health care reform would be lunacy. Fortunately for those of us that don't drag our knuckles when we walk, the RepubliiCON's have no power in the WH and much diminished power on the hill, which means they won't be dragging us anywhere.

        • Posted By: DemocratNoMore @ 07/19/2009 8:50:33 PM

          Say what you want about the Repubs not having any ideas. I would rather have no ideas than have the same ideas as Castro, Chavez, Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Obama etc... The Democrats have the same ideas that are a hundred years old then they say "we have new ideas." No, Dems ideas are the same garbage that has proven to fail. I have seen the light and have am a DemocratNoMore.

        • Posted By: researchthefactsnotthemainstreammediadrivel @ 07/19/2009 8:26:37 PM

          jacher1 Must be a Paid Obama blogger, or Kennedy staffer. No one would go out on the limb on facts as far as he has for no pay.

  • Posted By: megasteelers @ 07/19/2009 8:44:42 PM

    What a lot nerve to write a story about healthcare on the 40th anniversary weekend of ole Teddy leaving Mary Jo to drown to death.

  • Posted By: 4univhealthcare @ 07/18/2009 9:02:25 PM

    Health care in Canada or other countries may not be perfect but at least parents of kids with life-threatening diseases do not have to have fundraisers to pay for their child's health care. We are Americans - if our government can put a man on the moon- surely we can create health care for all just as we do education for all. The rich can still do private care - they earned it -but at least the rest of us can breathe easier knowing that if our children get sick we don't have to worry about buying food or buying medicine -- choices our elderly parents must make now. This may not mean much to you, but like Senator Kennedy, my otherwise healthy husband got a brain tumor out of the blue last year ??? and he is doing well because we have great doctors and insurance. But what if the for profit insurance company can find a reason to drop my husband? I don???t have the $1800 a month for the shot Neulasta needed after the $4000 monthly chemo (Temedor). Do you?

    • Posted By: DemocratNoMore @ 07/19/2009 8:44:30 PM

      Perhaps you should move to Canada or Europe. If government health care is your goal then why fight when you can get what you want right away.

  • Posted By: SukieTawdry @ 07/19/2009 2:50:16 PM

    The hard truth, Senator, is that if you had received the kind of care you want to foist on us, you'd be long dead by now.

    • Posted By: lebec @ 07/19/2009 8:12:28 PM

      The hard truth is that whatever is being proposed is better for those who don't have insurance already.
      the other hard truth is that I am a small business owner who provides full health care insurance for his employees (maybe even you). There is a good chance that I will be ending that coverage in the next couple years because of the increases in priemiums. That may change the opinions of a few employees who might now agree with you now. It looks very different when it happens to you, rather than to someone else.

  • Posted By: goldmine @ 07/19/2009 7:33:30 PM

    Sen Ted Kennedy said that he's been fighting for Health Care reform for 4 decades. Apparently, he had achieved nothing.

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