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Shawna Vercher

Senator Kennedy was a tireless champion of American health care. His views were "liberal", his state was Massachusetts and his name was Kennedy, but he wanted each and every American to have health care. Period. The fire and resolve in his voice when he discussed this issue matched my father's. They both knew that the existing system, which leaves so many American families literally devastated in the wake of any health-related incident, is one of the most un-American systems we still possess.