I heard a conservative accuse Ted Kennedy of creating HMO's.

[brainshrub]

He went on to say that our health-care is screwed up because of Kennedy.

Does anyone know what the @#$% he is talking about? Does he have a point?

[wryter2000]

1. HMO's

Instead, he might have mentioned that Frist's family owns the largest HMO in, I think, the country. And they've been charged with Medicare fraud.

Lying sacks of you-know-what

[LoZoccolo]

2. Big fucking deal.

I don't know if that's true or not, but it doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not what the Democrats are proposing now is better than what the Republicans are.

[yardwork]

3. No. Sigh.

Ted Kennedy was an early advocate for universal health care. It never happened, thanks to organized resistance by insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and even the AMA back in the 1970s. We've got exactly the mess that Kennedy predicted.

The Clinton administration tried again in the mid-1990s to implement universal coverage. Another well-funded blast from interested parties deep-sixed the plan.

Anyone who blames Kennedy or the Clintons for the state of health care in the U.S. has it exactly backwards.

But what else is new about Republican talking points? All their plans are selfish, evil, or both, so their only defense is always to lie.