Health Care for All

The real goal of Paul Ryan's plan is the same goal of his original plan: to allow Wall Street and huge private insurance companies to get their hands on the Medicare Trust Fund.

Just think how outrageous it would be if an election to replace the nation's most ardent champion of health care for all, stopped health care reform. That's exactly what Republican Scott Brown has said he will do.

Whether it is the amount we pay in premiums or the total contribution made by employer to the company health plan, America must begin to focus this debate where it belongs: on the bottom line.

It would be fitting if Sen. Kennedy's passing itself served to refocus the health care debate on the moral principle that lies at its center.