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Vicki Kennedy, Pelosi Praise Late Sen. Kennedy For Pushing ‘The Cause Of My Life’
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Kennedy’s wife, Vicki Kennedy, reiterated her late husband’s commitment to the cause of health care Thursday, but warned that the fight to implement all of the health care reform act’s provisions isn’t over:
I applaud the decision by the United States Supreme Court this morning, upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. We still have much work to do to implement the law, and I hope we can all come together now to complete that work. The stakes are too high for us to do otherwise. As my late husband Senator Edward Kennedy said: “What we face is above all a moral issue; that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.”
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Kennedy called health care reform “the cause of my life,”shortly before his death in August 2009. “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.”
Kennedy began calling for universal health care in the 1960s and made it central to his primary challenge to President Jimmy Carter in 1980. In the 1990s, Kennedy was behind the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the largest expansion of health care coverage for children at the time in over three decades. President Obama signed a reauthorization and expansion of the program in early 2009, while Kennedy was still in the Senate.
Kennedy’s wife, Vicki Kennedy, reiterated her late husband’s commitment to the cause of health care Thursday, but warned that the fight to implement all of the health care reform act’s provisions isn’t over:
I applaud the decision by the United States Supreme Court this morning, upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. We still have much work to do to implement the law, and I hope we can all come together now to complete that work. The stakes are too high for us to do otherwise. As my late husband Senator Edward Kennedy said: “What we face is above all a moral issue; that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.”
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Kennedy called health care reform “the cause of my life,”shortly before his death in August 2009. “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.”
Kennedy began calling for universal health care in the 1960s and made it central to his primary challenge to President Jimmy Carter in 1980. In the 1990s, Kennedy was behind the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the largest expansion of health care coverage for children at the time in over three decades. President Obama signed a reauthorization and expansion of the program in early 2009, while Kennedy was still in the Senate.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/pelosi-ted-kennedy-can-rest-in-peace.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
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R.I.P. Uncle Ted. 
