In 50 years of public service, clearly had much greater impact than his brothers.
Hopefully, this will provide impetus for Caroline to take up the torch.
And hopefully the healthcare reform will become his final legacy.
Putting on my socially liberal hat -- I think most people will agree that health insurance is one of the most regressive aspects of peoples' lives, perhaps of greater import than regressive social security/payroll taxes, regressive sales taxes, and a tax system which allows the rich to have lower effective tax rates than the middle class.
People who can pay more should pay more for healthcare (particularly since they tend to get better healthcare).
And all of this state boundary issues, better rates for those with more leverage (big companies vs. small businesses), defensive medicine (from lack of tort reform), regulatory costs for new medicine, inadequate use of technology, etc. -- really needs to be addressed too.
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