CNN Costello Warns: SCOTUS May Undo Teddy Kennedy’s Vision of ObamaCare

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
COSTELLO: [Reading Ted Kennedy comments] "The nation takes another major step toward reaching the goals to which they, my brothers, dedicated their careers and for which they gave their lives. They strived, as I have tried to do, for a fair and more just America, a nation where every American could share fully in the promise of quality health care. [Stops reading] What would your father think of the battle raging over ObamaCare today?" 
KENNEDY: "Well, it's basic. It's a very simple thing, treat others as you would want to be treated. Do you want to live in a country where the vagaries of the system leave you helpless and without any health care that could jeopardize your life, the life of your children? I don't think that's not only something that's undesirable for a family, it's undesirable for us as a nation. We've come too far as a country to now think that we're going to move backward. For the supreme court to decide that this is a technical issue is ignoring the fact that we've had over 100 years towards this day when we could finally guarantee all Americans access to health care. That cannot be underdone simply by the technical review of this as simply a legal case. There is a moral contract that's involved here, and we hope that the supreme court takes that into account because it's not just the legal contract. It's a moral contract, and that's why I think the president is going to be speaking to the catholic hospital association because the moral issue here is treating everybody as we would ourselves want to be treated." 
COSTELLO: "And your father very much believed that. He wrote this letter while he was dying. It was his wish that this would be put into place because he fought so long and hard for such a law. How would he feel that it might be stripped and millions of people might lose their insurance?" 
KENNEDY: "You can't imagine what this is going to mean to all of those families who are once again going to be thrown into the abyss wondering if their child gets sick, what are they going to do? Can they afford to take their child to the hospital? I mean, this is unconscionable in this great country of ours that we would let people die because of lack of access to basic health care. It's just immoral, and so I think that should be what is on all of our minds. We have to do always a better job of trying to implement access to health care for all, but the basic premise of this should not be in question, and that is that all human beings ought to have access to life-saving health care for them and their families."