Last night, 77-year-old Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to brain cancer, just as his dream of expanding health care to serve ALL Americans is drawing near.
Kennedy spent much of his life fighting for equality in health care, calling it “the cause of [his] life,” and understood how the wealthy benefit fromthe best care that money and good insurance could provide after his son fought bone cancer as a preteen and his daughter was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Then, of course, there was his own battle with cancer.
Although he was ill, Kennedy vehemently campaigned for Obama - and his plan for reforming the nation’s health care system.
Kennedy leaves behind many accomplishments in American health. He played a vital part in the expansion of Medicare to cover prescription medicines, the addition of millions of children to state health insurance and ensuring equality for mental health care with other coverage.
I pay honor to Senator Kennedy today, and thank him for fighting toward a country full of healthy people and healthy places.
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