Yes, the most incompetent occupant of the White House prior to Obama our esteemed former President has attacked the late Senator in a “60 Minutes” interview. He claims that HE would have enacted comperhensive health care reform were it not for Kennedy’s obstructionism:
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed … It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.
I was but a youth in those far off days, and I can’t say I remember much about the health reform debate. Nonetheless, the breach between those two losers statesmen seems to have involved what we call the “public option”:
The 1979 fight centered around the implementation of a public insurance plan. Kennedy, according to an account by Time magazine, favored a government insurance program that would have been quickly implemented, while Carter favored a similar plan that would have been phased in.
Assuming that Carter isn’t merely having another of his “senior moments,” I have to say that Kennedy did the country a lot of good if his disdain for Jimma postponed the government takeover of health care for three decades.
Good job Ted!
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