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According to the Boston Globe, Ted Kennedy isn't letting anything so trivial as an aggressive brain tumor prevent him from reforming health care:
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office has begun convening a series of meetings involving a wide array of healthcare specialists to begin laying the groundwork for a new attempt to provide universal healthcare, according to participants.The discussions signal that Kennedy, who instructed aides to begin holding the meetings while he is in Massachusetts undergoing treatment for brain cancer, intends to work vigorously to build bipartisan support for a major healthcare initiative when he returns to Washington in the fall.The article goes on to note that Obama's Senate staff is attending these health care briefings, as are a number of Republican staffs (There's even an on-the-record, complimentary quote from Mike Enzi's spokesman.). The first meeting brought in the various health care coalitions, and the second heard from physician groups. Eight more are planned before the end of the month.As AARP's policy director, Jon Rother, says, "You have got to think this will be the Ted Kennedy Health Reform Act." When Kennedy's cancer was announced, I wrote, "without Kennedy, it's hard to imagine passing universal health care." Hopefully, we're not even going to have to try.
