Ted Kennedy Speaks of Devotion to Healthcare Reform (video)
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In this video, Sen. Ted Kennedy speaks about his personal connection to and passion for the issue of reforming healthcare in the United States so that people at an economic disadvantage are not forced to suffer preventable complications and death due to inadequate available coverage and/or treatment.
Kennedy says of the issue:
This is the cause of my life. It is a key reason that I defied my illness last summer to speak at the Democratic convention in Denver—to support Barack Obama, but also to make sure, as I said, “that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege.” For four decades I have carried this cause—from the floor of the United States Senate to every part of this country. It has never been merely a question of policy; it goes to the heart of my belief in a just society. Now the issue has more meaning for me—and more urgency—than ever before. But it’s always been deeply personal, because the importance of health care has been a recurrent lesson throughout most of my 77 years.
His death last night from the effects of a malignant brain tumor has removed one of the most informed and impassioned voices in the US political system working to represent those who are underprivileged and disadvantaged by a tangled, haphazard system where success is measured more in dollars than in lives extended or saved.
The progressive activist organization MoveOn.org is asking readers to light a candle in their window to honor Sen. Kennedy’s legacy and achievements and to show a spirit of mourning at his passing. Sen. Kennedy is being heralded as one of the leading lights of the pro-health-reform movement and a champion of working class Americans whose struggles are often ignored by the elite in the nation’s halls of power.
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