By Jacob Goldstein
Sen. Edward Kennedy has died of brain cancer.
As the WSJ obit notes, he died “with one of his lifelong goals, universal health care, tantalizingly within reach yet struggling on Capitol Hill.”
But his health-care agenda was broader than that, and in the past decade or so he helped push several significant health-related bills through Congress. Where you fall on the political spectrum will likely determine what you think of his health care legacy — his work increased government-backed health insurance coverage for children and seniors, and it added to regulation of health insurance and tobacco.
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