Ted Kennedy: Cancer Showed Me Need For Health Care Reform

The Huffington Post News Team, Huffington Post: Politics
Thu, 05/28/2009 - 5:41am

Over the last year, I've seen our healthcare system up close. I've benefitted from the best of medicine, but I've also witnessed the frustration and outrage of patients and doctors alike as they face the challenges of a system that shortchanges millions of Americans. We have the greatest doctors and medical innovations in the world, but more and more Americans are on the outside looking in to a world of progress and discovery that is denied to them because they cannot afford quality healthcare.

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