Ted Kennedy, Healthcare Champion?

In the media's eulogizing of Ted Kennedy, they're holding him up as some kind of Health Care reform messiah.

But I overheard an interesting point on the radio on the way to work this morning:

If Ted Kennedy was such an ardent believer in providing health care for the impoverished and downtrodden, then why aren't there Ted Kennedy Health Care facilities in every city in America, funded by his own personal family wealth? He supposedly spent 46 years in the senate working to provide health care assistance for those who can't pay for it, yet this man who came from one of the wealthiest families in the United States didn't start a charitable foundation (like the Ronald McDonald House) to do it. He wanted you and me to pay for it.

He was the archetypical liberal. And I don't mean that as a compliment.