The Ted Kennedy Memorial Nationalized Health Care Act of 2009

In the coming months, Ted Kennedy may soon part this earth. It’s obvious before he goes, he wants to insure his name is attached to the most radical changes in health care this country has known. Without a doubt, Obama wants to crown this honor on Senator Kennedy before he passes, so I expect a sprint to nationalized health care.

Earlier this week, Obama had more breakout sessions designed to discuss the health care crisis in America, a crisis I could fix in a few minutes with common sense. First get the attorneys off the doctors backs. Our nation is too sue happy, and it’s driven the cost of care up. Secondly, stop running to the emergency room for every little scratch. That’s not what these few paragraphs are about though. There is an omen in naming a health care package after Senator Kennedy.

Does anyone else find it ironic that Ted Kennedy legacy will be finalized with health care plan? When I think health care, I think saving a life. Teddy is the last person I think of when it comes to saving a life, so maybe Kennedy’s name attached to nationalized health care is appropriate.

On July 18, 1969, Kennedy offered to drive Mary Jo Kopechne to the ferry so she could return to her home after attending a party in Chappaquiddick. Kennedy got lost and turned on a road with a long, narrow bridge without guard rails. He drove his Oldsmobile off the bridge and managed to save himself, but failed to get Kopechne out of the car. Kennedy left the scene of the accident and contacted several aids. Like most Democrats, they think they are above the law, so he didn’t contact the authorities. The next day two fishermen noticed the metal from the car reflecting in the water. They contacted a little cottage close to the bridge, and the woman in the cottage called the authorities. Kennedy, who has a reputation with the bottle, claims he wasn’t drinking that night, and his timeline of events has always raised eyebrows.

So did Ted Kennedy try to save a life that night, or did he only worry about himself? Perhaps, he intended to drive off that bridge to save his political career that night. Who knows what really happened between her leaving the party and her drowning in the drink. In an address on national TV, he claimed he wasn’t drinking nor did he engage in immoral conduct that night with Kopechne. We’ve been lied to before by politicians about inappropriate behavior. Why wouldn’t Kennedy protect himself knowing his family name would shut the case?

The irony of a Ted Kennedy Health Care plan is the government will walk away when your life could be saved just like Ted Kennedy walked away that night at Chappaquiddick. Obviously that night Kennedy put more value in his life, than he did the young woman’s life. Under the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Plan, the government will decide how valuable your life is compared to what the government considers valuable. If the government is more valuable than your life, they walk like Kennedy. It’s really the appropriate name for America’s entry into the nationalized health care, isn’t it?

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Originally Published at Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom
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