Kennedycare? Really?

Am I wrong to think this shows how totally detached the D.C./N.Y.-centric press is from the rest of the country, and how the Left believes too many of the press-clippings it plants?

People who admired Ted Kennedy are already in favor of socialized medicine; people who despised Ted Kennedy may actually have preferred socialized medicine (a notion they deeply dislike) to him. That's at best a wash and more likely a slight net negative. Everyone else is indifferent to Kennedy, and in any event their health care is a hell of a lot more important to them than whatever fleeting thought they might give Kennedy one way or the other — which is a big net negative for socialized medicine, but one on which Kennedy's name irrelevant.

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