We've been going at it back and forth on FaceBook about health care. Here's a response by a local lawyer that I thought was especially poignant:
"I will tell you what concrete thing Senator Kennedy did. He saved my daughter Jessica's life. She was 23, had just graduated college two years ago, has a degree but no job and no health insurance. She was diagnosed with a virulent and rare cancer that was virtually fatal. Thanks to Medicaid and the National Cancer Center (the legislation for creating and funding both were driven through Congress by Teddy), my daughter's $500k treatment saved her life. Ted Kennedy saved my daughter. Plain and simple. He created and implemented federal, public health care plans that were the only reason my daughter got treatment. Before she was approved the hospitals coldly sent her away to die -- literally would not look at her and she was dying right in front of them at 23. So, all you who are ignorant about what Teddy did, I am here to tell you. One day it will be your child. One day the doctors will tell you they are sending her home to die because there is no insurance. Then you'll know..."
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