Kevin, M.D. provides a little background on Ted Kennedy’s extraordinary health care:
The meeting on May 30 was extraordinary in at least two ways.
One was the ability of a powerful patient — in this case, a scion of a legendary political family and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee — to summon noted consultants to learn about the latest therapy and research findings.
The second was his efficiency in quickly convening more than a dozen experts from at least six academic centers. Some flew to Boston. Others participated by telephone after receiving pertinent test results and other medical records.
I don’t begrudge him a bit of it – all his money will do him no good later on; he might as well spend it how he pleases now, and if that’s on the extension of his life, that’s his prerogative. I do heartily begrudge his and the rest of the left’s intransigence in acknowledging that the “universal healthcare” they advocate makes this sort of thing impossible and brings everyone down to the same lowest common denominator. The love affair with equality of outcome as opposed to equality of opportunity has always perplexed me.
I’m not just pounding the Dems on healthcare policy – the GOP is also a trainwreck.
Dr. Wes notes that in Canada, dogs can get hip replacement surgery before people can.
