Open up Medicare for All and call it TeddyCare. That would be the most appropriate memorial.

I feel strongly that he would approve.

Of course, the right wing will scream that it's exploitation, but fuck 'em!:thumbsdoen:

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axkqzmUoOBzM
Kennedy Legislative Legacy Will Be Hard to Replicate in Senate
By James Rowley
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) --

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Health Care Champion

A longtime champion of universal health-care coverage, Kennedy sponsored legislation that allowed laid-off workers to continue to buy, for a period of time, health insurance offered by their employers. He also was instrumental in pushing community health centers that serve low-income Americans and the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition program to improve the health of poor women and their children.

By the time the Senate began drafting legislation to carry out President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul U.S. health care, Kennedy was too sick to participate in the day-to-day discussions. He kept in touch by telephone with lawmakers and turned the task of shepherding the bill through the HELP Committee to Dodd.

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His staff could have done that for him in his absence.

He was about universal care, but he was also about doing what could be done. If this could be done in his name he would be smiling. . . unfortunately, I don't see it happening.

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http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/story?id=7787098
ABC News:
Ted Kennedy Legislative Accomplishments
Senator Stayed on the Forefront of Health Care Debate Despite His Absence From the Hill In Last Year
By HUMA KHAN and CAITLIN TAYLOR
Aug. 26, 2009

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For Kennedy, President Obama's ascension to the White House was an important step toward realizing his goal of health care reform. Many say Kennedy's views were closely aligned to those of Obama's

"This is the cause of my life," Kennedy said at an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention in August 2008 while endorsing then-candidate Obama. He spoke of "new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American -- North, South, East, West, young, old -- will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege."

Kennedy, a longtime chair of the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, called for extending Medicare coverage to all Americans, medical coverage for the uninsured and modernizing health care systems by using new technologies to cut costs. He also proposed to implement a rule that would require every American to have some form of health insurance, a point which became one of the key points of contention between Democrats and Republicans.

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