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信息：周六美東時間上午10點到下午1點，CBS將直播艾德華·肯尼迪的葬禮，中間會回顧他的一生，還有肯尼迪家族的故事。
毫無疑問，剛剛去世的艾德華·肯尼迪參議員是當今最成功，最有成績的參議員之一。但是，他也曾犯下致命錯誤。
艾德華·肯尼迪親口說過，他最遺憾的錯誤之一，就是在1970年代初期，過於激進，沒有支持當時共和黨尼克鬆總統的全民醫療保險提案。他承認那是解決全民醫療保險的曆史最佳時刻。
從那時起，到克林頓和民主黨執掌總統和國會兩院，再到奧巴馬時代，所有的全民醫療保險提案都從當年尼克鬆提案退步了。即便如此還是不能達成協議。艾德華·肯尼迪幾十年的努力仍然沒有結果。
他後悔，那時認為尼克鬆提案做的還不夠，政府還應該做的更多更好。可惜，後來他認識到當時太固執了，尼克鬆提案是可能達到的最好方案了。時光錯過不再來，他也隻能遺憾終生了。
希望國會議員們有智慧有能力，在不久的將來製訂一個比較好的全民醫療保險方案。
In 1971, President Nixon unveiled a plan to expand healthcare to nearly all Americans through their employers, with the federal government subsidizing insurance premiums for the poor. The plan was strikingly similar to many that Democrats would put forth in subsequent years. But in the early 1970s, the then 39-year-old senator from Massachusetts wanted more. He stubbornly held out for a straight up national healthcare system paid for through general revenues and Social Security taxes.
"It's really a partnership between the administration and insurance companies," Kennedy griped in 1971 about the Nixon plan. "It's not a partnership between patients and doctors of this nation."
In the end, neither the Nixon plan nor the Kennedy proposal passed, and Kennedy would wonder, decades later, if he had missed his only chance to install a plan — even an imperfect one — that would give every American the chance to get health insurance.
"We should have jumped on that," Kennedy said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/02/20/a_towering_record_painstakingly_built/
Meanwhile, Kennedy renewed his efforts for national health insurance. While proposing a single-payer solution favored by organized labor, he also negotiated with the Nixon administration on their preferred employer-based, HMO-oriented solution. The two sides could not come to agreement, and Kennedy would later regret not seizing upon the Nixon plan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#1970s
毫無疑問，剛剛去世的艾德華·肯尼迪參議員是當今最成功，最有成績的參議員之一。但是，他也曾犯下致命錯誤。
艾德華·肯尼迪親口說過，他最遺憾的錯誤之一，就是在1970年代初期，過於激進，沒有支持當時共和黨尼克鬆總統的全民醫療保險提案。他承認那是解決全民醫療保險的曆史最佳時刻。
從那時起，到克林頓和民主黨執掌總統和國會兩院，再到奧巴馬時代，所有的全民醫療保險提案都從當年尼克鬆提案退步了。即便如此還是不能達成協議。艾德華·肯尼迪幾十年的努力仍然沒有結果。
他後悔，那時認為尼克鬆提案做的還不夠，政府還應該做的更多更好。可惜，後來他認識到當時太固執了，尼克鬆提案是可能達到的最好方案了。時光錯過不再來，他也隻能遺憾終生了。
希望國會議員們有智慧有能力，在不久的將來製訂一個比較好的全民醫療保險方案。
In 1971, President Nixon unveiled a plan to expand healthcare to nearly all Americans through their employers, with the federal government subsidizing insurance premiums for the poor. The plan was strikingly similar to many that Democrats would put forth in subsequent years. But in the early 1970s, the then 39-year-old senator from Massachusetts wanted more. He stubbornly held out for a straight up national healthcare system paid for through general revenues and Social Security taxes.
"It's really a partnership between the administration and insurance companies," Kennedy griped in 1971 about the Nixon plan. "It's not a partnership between patients and doctors of this nation."
In the end, neither the Nixon plan nor the Kennedy proposal passed, and Kennedy would wonder, decades later, if he had missed his only chance to install a plan — even an imperfect one — that would give every American the chance to get health insurance.
"We should have jumped on that," Kennedy said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/02/20/a_towering_record_painstakingly_built/
Meanwhile, Kennedy renewed his efforts for national health insurance. While proposing a single-payer solution favored by organized labor, he also negotiated with the Nixon administration on their preferred employer-based, HMO-oriented solution. The two sides could not come to agreement, and Kennedy would later regret not seizing upon the Nixon plan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#1970s
美國是有錢打仗，沒錢看病。