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Article: 25 Top Players: Sen. Edward Kennedy.(Brief Article)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- July 23, 2001
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Few healthcare laws have been enacted in the past 25 years without bearing at least a fingerprint of Sen. EDWARD KENNEDY (D-Mass.).
His sometimes-partisan, sometimes-cooperative lawmaking posture has accomplished such victories as health insurance portability legislation and Senate passage of managed-care reforms.
``As long as he's sitting in the U.S. Senate, nothing will pass through unless he's a part of it,'' says Herb Kuhn, vice president of advocacy at Premier hospital alliance, San Diego.
When he was chairman of what is now the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Kennedy was one of the few to achieve bipartisan ...