With the death of Edward Kennedy, the hope of regular people, self employed with pre-existing conditions to get afordable insurance is dimmed. My wife is one of them and it is a road that most people don't understand. It is a priviledge that no one understands until you lose it. We are the only industrialized nation in the world where this is possible and that is a poor legacy for the greatest country in the world. My blessings to the Kennedy family.