Ted Kennedy’s care

July 29, 2008

He advocates a Medicare-for-all system, which would have made what he did for himself impossible for the average patient:

The meeting on May 30 was extraordinary in at least two ways.

One was the ability of a powerful patient “” in this case, a scion of a legendary political family and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee “” to summon noted consultants to learn about the latest therapy and research findings.

The second was his efficiency in quickly convening more than a dozen experts from at least six academic centers. Some flew to Boston. Others participated by telephone after receiving pertinent test results and other medical records.

The United States is the one of the few countries in the world where Ted Kennedy could have received such superlative specialist care. I hope those on the left recognize that, and give some credit where it’s due.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Anonymous July 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm

so the closest thing to American royalty gets amazing treatment and this is supposed to make people who can’t get even an appointment with a local PCP feel better?

Did Kennedy’s new treatment regimen involve the eating of cake?

2 Anonymous July 29, 2008 at 6:37 pm

The hypocrisy of the single payer totalitarians is beyond human tolerance.

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