Health Care
Kennedy believed that health care coverage was a fundamental right for all individuals and fought for universal health care in the United States until his death. In 2010, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Health Care for America Act to provide near universal health care coverage in the United States by 2014. Kennedy's widow, Vicki attended the signing ceremony for the bill.
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