Public Health Care, Democrats, and Ted Kennedy

An article out of the United Kingdom showcases the horrors of that nation's health care system. So this begs the question: how do we create a public option that the nation can not only afford, but one in which the care Americans receive remains at the same level it is today and doesn't become like that of Europe?

I've spoken to some Europeans who rave about their health care systems and how they are so wonderful, how America's health system has its own problems, etc. Many claim that the horror stories told of in the article above don't happen. Really?

If a private insurer treated people like England's national system, then people would simply purchase insurance from another company that treats them with dignity. One cannot do this, however, if the government puts the private sector out of business.

No matter how often my liberal friends try and convince me otherwise, I just can't envision Nancy Pelosi as the compassionate, coddling type. Speaking of which, I can't see this Democratic member of the House as the compassionate, coddling type either -- especially since he thinks so highly of moderates in his party.

It takes a real smug A-class jerk to call his colleagues 'brain dead' in public just because they don't agree with him (and especially a day after his party's liberal standard bearer passed on due to cancer of the brain).

Classy.

Lastly, you know you must have done something right in life when the sitting president of the United States, all of the remaining living former presidents (4 in total), and half of the United States Congress plans on attending your funeral. It also says something when during your procession from your home to your brother's memorial library, where you are to lie in repose, people actually pull off the side of the highway, get out of their cars, and stand silently, crying, and waving as you ride by for the last time.



I'd be surprised if we ever see anything like this again in Massachsuetts for a long time. I may not have agreed with you on anything Ted, but God-speed.