Not all wealthy people don't care about healthcare
On his way to have brain surgery at Duke University in June 2008, Kennedy had called Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn) and asked him to prepare a health-care bill for the next administration. A few months later, Kennedy had ignored doctors' advice and given a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver about health-care reform. Then, in a final plea, he had reiterated his feelings in a letter to Obama, which Vicki delivered after her husband died.
"You will be the president who at long last signs into law the health care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society," Kennedy wrote. "For me, this cause stretched across decades; it has been disappointed, but never finally defeated. It was the cause of my life."
Patrick Kennedy, the son, also spoke on the House floor in the hours before the vote, and his father was foremost in his mind. "His heart and soul are in this bill," he said.
The next morning, after he cast his vote, he visited his father's grave. There, alone in Section 45, he was more succinct. He pulled out one of his congressional note cards, which he would leave at the footstone.
"Dad," he wrote in blue marker, "the 'unfinished business' is done."
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