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...first task will be the cause of Kennedy's life: health-care reform. Kerry has been watching the coverage following Kennedy's death, and he worries about progressives using Kennedy's passing as an excuse to dig in their heels on the inclusion of a public option, a key point of contention. Senate Republicans have said they will not vote for a bill with one in it, arguing that the creation of a public plan to compete with private insurers is the first step to socialized medicine; House progressives have said they will not vote for legislation without such...
...Kerry says Kennedy, though physically absent the last seven months, was actually very involved in health-care policy, whether through his staff, other Senators or his wife Victoria. "He sat down with his staff and Vicki and others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment...
...sailing, that were racing in the bay. He was just very much there. He had the total ability to be Ted Kennedy and think and know what's going on; it was just getting hard for him to verbalize." The two talked about sailing and the sea. And health care: "He'd say, 'We just gotta get it done,' " Kerry says. (See a Kennedy family album of photos...
...Kerry will push for whatever health-care-reform bill is passed to be named for Kennedy. "I think he would be very honored and very gratified if the bill were named after him," he says...
...care," she said. "It's the most awful, morbid thing. They have to remember Jack alive...