Health Affairs, 28, no. 6 (2009): w1049-w1051
(Published online 17 September 2009)
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.w1049
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Making Common Cause With Adversaries While Committed To Health Reform

Theodore R. Marmor

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ON SENATOR Edward M. Kennedy’s passing, a central question for me as a scholar is simple to state but complicated to answer. Would American medical care—its practices and its policies—be very different had the senator taken up a business career like his father rather than a political career like his brothers?

In one respect, the answer seems straightforward. Neither Senator Kennedy nor anyone else has pulled off the major "overhaul" that has been a constant topic of political discussion since at least the early 1960s. We are, in 2009, debating almost exactly the same topics that Senator Kennedy addressed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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