His personal exposure to health care challenges only strengthened his determination to achieve his central goal in the Senate, the mission that drove both his daily schedule and his long term agenda: he wanted every man, woman, and child in America to have access to decent health care. In theory, it was a goal that could be accomplished with one, big national health care program, a plan that would ensure that pregnant women would have prenatal care, that children would get their vaccinations, that sufferers of rare diseases would have access to the medicines they needed, that workers could change jobs without worrying about losing their health insurance, and that seniors would not have to choose between food and prescription drugs. In practice, Kennedy would spend decades trying to make those things happen piece by piece.
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(from Last Lion : The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, edited by Peter S. Canellos)
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