Kennedys paid for GOP congressional candidate's healthcare

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Kennedys paid for GOP congressional candidate's healthcare

by Junkyard Dem

Just north of New York City, New York State Assembly member Greg Ball (R) is running against Rep. John Hall (D) for the NY's 19th congressional district. Ball is staging his own sham town halls. These events are filled with plenty of astroturfing and choreographed outrage from Ball's acolytes.

Ball has been using this chicanery to exploit an issue that is more moral than political to further his career advancement. But Ball, it turns out has been getting government-paid, single-payer health care for most of his adult life in his short tenure as an Air Force officer and as a State Assemblyman.

And ironically, when he was a baby, and his family was in need, the Kennedy family stepped in and paid for his health care, according to Ball.

Ball fondly recalls how the Kennedy family paid for his health care when he was a child.

From the article in Hindu Business Line a publication in India:

Ball narrates an incident from his childhood that sowed the seeds for his passion. "My godmother was personal secretary to Joseph Kennedy, the father of Jack Kennedy. As an infant I had cat-scratch fever, and Jean Kennedy- Smith, Jack Kennedy's sister, asked my parents to take me to a hospital. When my parents said they couldn't afford it, she said she would take care of everything. And, within five minutes, there were 10 doctors around me. I think those little interactions that I had as a kid with that family in particular showed me how well power could be used."

He feels that people should use their abilities to impact others positively, because there is both good and evil in this world. "Evil exists, and we have to fight it at every turn."

I must say, what a compassionate clan the Kennedy family has been, and despite their wealth they took it upon themselves to care for a small baby who was, at the very best, tenuously connected to them. And this interaction with the Kennedy family taught Ball to demonize a healthcare system with a public-option? I'm not sure how such compassion teaches someone to be so selfish and uncaring.

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[karynnj]

1. What a cool Kennedy story - and incomprehensible that he misses the point

that he could have died from lack of insurance.