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Ruth Conser Shaw, who helped improve Afghan health care, diesDallas Morning NewsJohn Connally, who was wounded during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In Afghanistan, Mrs. Shaw worked hard to keep things tidy for her ...and more »
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Pittsburgh Post GazettePitt nursing dean to discuss health at White HousePittsburgh Post Gazette... White House Office of Health Reform; Richard Waldman, president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and Holly Powell Kennedy, ...and more »
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Top minds tapped in aid of legislationSan Jose Mercury NewsHe will work with fellow Byron Kennedy, a former public health medical officer at the California Department of Public Health, to bolster Swanson's work on ...and more »
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Boston GlobeGOP Sen. hopeful calls for Mass. health plan capsBoston GlobeKennedy died Aug. 25 of a brain tumor. Before his death, Kennedy said expanding health care coverage had been part of his life's work.CorrectionsNew York TimesAn unimaginable and ironic defeat of Democrats health care bill. This could ...Examiner.comWrentham senator pushes to ax some health-care benefitsBoston HeraldWBUR -Boston Globe -Boston Globeall 226 news articles »
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...Democrat called out strongly from his wheelchair, "is for my friend Ted Kennedy." That was very much the story of the massive health-care legislation that finally cleared the chamber early Thursday morning. Though Kennedy died in August of brain cancer at...
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Kansas City StarDuring health-care vote, Ted Kennedy is gone -- but not forgottenWashington PostThat was very much the story of the massive health-care legislation that finally cleared the chamber Thursday morning. Though Kennedy died in August of ...Missing Ted Kennedy: Health Care Reform Package Would Have Been So DifferentistockAnalyst.com (press release)Senate 'Liberal Lion' Remembered in Health DebateNew York TimesKennedy's name invoked during Senate voteUSA Today (blog)AFP -Boston Herald -Boston Globeall 351 news articles »
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...the late Sen. Ted Kennedy would appreciate that health care reform was passed "on a party line vote." John McCain - Ted Kennedy - Health care - United States - Senate Why the Senate Should Vote Yes on Health Care nytimes.com 5 days ago — Washington IF I...
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Beltway Blips
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...sideshows of the Senate’s passage of a health care reform bill is the question, “Would Ted Kennedy have supported the Senate health care bill?” Had Ted Kennedy been alive today, either Ben Nelson would not have been able to undermine women’s health care equities...
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...nasty comments over abortion and proposals for a health care overhaul in Washington, D.C. Kennedy is a strong supporter of health care overhaul, even if it includes public funding for abortion services, while the Catholic Church opposes the abortion component. In...
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Boston Globe
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...“requires taxpayers to pay for abortion.” “Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s statement about the Catholic Church’s position on health-care reform is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts,” the bishop said. “But the congressman is correct in stating that ‘he...
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Providence Journal
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...tonight: Another remembrance of the life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and another presidential plug for passage of a comprehensive health care bill. An “event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate” was the official reason...
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The Caucus
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/obama-invokes-kennedy-for-health-cause/
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For more than four decades, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) was the Senates leading advocate for universal health care. Kennedy gave his first speech calling for universal care in 1969. A year later, he introduced his first national health
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Roll Call
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...Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday on his radio show that it would be absurd to enact a far-reaching health overhaul in Kennedy’s name when he "gave us the most shining example of why this particular bill is so bad." Huckabee suggested that Democrats "would...
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Boston Herald
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..."He was already thinking about how to get things ready."Davis credits Kennedy for the many bills he did pass to improve health care.Kennedy created neighborhood health centers in the 1960s; HMOs and health planning in the 1970s; COBRA to allow the unemployed...
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Newsday
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...be about him, it never was. It was about getting it done for the American people." There was no universal agreement that a healthy Kennedy could have brought about a health-care compromise where the gulf between rival positions is enormous. "Ted Kennedy over...
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KansasCity.com
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Health care reform, a long and unrealized legislative goal for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was a frequent topic on Wednesday as some congressional leaders and others suggested it be passed as a tribute to the lawmaker, but others said his
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GovExec.com
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Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), one of the few to have served in the Senate longer than the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, said in a statement today that health care legislation should be named in his honor.
Kennedy famously called health care reform "the cause of
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CBS News
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...goal is tantalizingly close. About four decades ago, as the Associated Press reminds us,President Richard M. Nixon tried to make a deal with Mr. Kennedy that would have produced a version of universal health care. But the young Senator turned it down....
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Free Internet Press
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...his successor, so that he or she could vote in favor of Obama's health care bill in time. As it is, Kennedy's success in passing health care reform could be a rallying cry for the Democrats to get "Obamacare" passed in his honor - or it could be harder to...
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Associated Content
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...Government Health Care Bill After Kennedy Ace of Spades HQ — No One Saw That Coming: Byrd Wants to Name Socialist Government Health Care Bill After Kennedy ChappaquiddiCare. (Hey, if they want to brand the man and use him for politics, it's fair game.)...
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Beltway Blips
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...corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets”: Thousands ... Ted Kennedy, Healthcare & Purgatory firstthings.com 15 hours ago — Edward Moore Kennedy , 1932-2009 My baby-hood crush on John Kennedy, and...
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Beltway Blips
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For over four decades, Kennedy has fought to bring reform to the health care industry. He spent his last few months continuing that battle.
With his health declining, Senator Kennedy was forced to continue his fight for health care reform from his home.
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Huliq.com
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...aide who is now a lobbyist with the firm Foley Hoag, represents Amgen. Paul Kim, the former deputy health counsel to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Kennedy’s committee, is also a lobbyist for Foley Hoag. Other big donors include Partners...
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25235.html
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...doing well and he’s very engaged on it,” said Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., who visited with Kennedy recently. As the health care debate intensifies, Kennedy is relying on Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, the second-ranking Democrat on the health panel, as...
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
http://www.telegram.com/article/20090629/NEWS/906290352/1003/rss01&source=rss
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With its white clapboard walls, sloping lawns and broad porches, the famed Kennedy family compound on Cape Cod boasts commanding views of Nantucket Sound’s shimmering waters.
The quiet six-acre compound in Hyannis Port has for generations
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
http://www.telegram.com/article/20090629/NEWS/906290352/1003/RSS01&source=rss
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Kennedy Health Care Reform Bill Released -- Help Us Read Through It
www.docstoc.com 17 days ago — Dropping in at 615 pages is the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's attempt to fix the broken health care system. The HELP
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Beltway Blips
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Colleagues says Kennedy's absence will be felt in the debate over the health care bill. Kennedy is the chairman of the Health, Education,
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NPR
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...the help they need." Kennedy’s office declined to elaborate or answer questions about the statement or the congressman’s health. Kennedy has long acknowledged that he suffers from a serious mental illness and from dual additions to alcohol and prescription...
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Providence Journal
http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/patrick_12_06-12-09_Q5EMRUD_v7.449252e.html
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Sen. Chris Dodd is emerging as the face of a Senate plan to overhaul the nation's health care system in the absence of Congress' acknowledged expert on the subject, ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Republicans already are griping about being frozen out,
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009320065_apusdoddsduty.html?syndication=rss
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...goal of holding down costs and extending health coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans. It's already been known that Kennedy's health committee was planning to pursue most of the concepts outlined in the draft of the bill, called the "American Health Choices...
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WCCO
http://wcco.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1034086.html
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...began battling brain cancer, it remains to be seen how active of a role he’ll play. But Kennedy’s name is synonymous with health reform and given his close relationship with the White House, his loud noises in support of a public plan may at least signal that...
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The Root
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...in pushing for a final version of the bill that will be as close to his intended version as “practical politics allows.” Kennedy is chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, one of the two Senate panels that will be directly involved...
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RedOrbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1697479/kennedy_expected_to_outline_healthcare_reform_bill/index.html?source=r_health
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Medical News Today
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/152013.php
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Kennedy, a Democratic stalwart whose thinking is widely believed to track that of President Barack Obama on healthcare, is expected to unveil a plan in early June that will include both a new government program to provide medical coverage for all as
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053100189.html?nav=rss_business/industries
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WASHINGTON The two Senate Democrats leading the drive to overhaul health care say they will work together to come up with legislation.Sens. Max Baucus and Edward Kennedy said in a joint statement Saturday they intend to cooperate so their
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KansasCity.com
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