Save The Money | The Big Dig Season 4 | Mitt & Ted

After the 2002 Winter Olympics rebooting his political career, Mitt Romney reunites with Ted Kennedy to lobby the Bush administration. At stake: more than a billion dollars of federal money that is propping up the state’s entire healthcare system. Healthcare is the problem American politics cannot solve. It’s the subject of screaming matches at town halls, the cause of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the justification for political assassination in cold blood. Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy began their political journeys on opposite sides of the issue, and they ended once again on opposite sides, but for a brief period in the middle they worked together to pass a groundbreaking law – one that promised to finally transform the politics of American healthcare – the law known as Romneycare. So what brought this odd couple together, and what ultimately pulled Mitt and Ted apart? GBH News is a premier source for in-depth local news and original story telling based in Boston, Massachusetts. Subscribe to the GBH News YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/gbhnews?sub... Subscribe to our GBH Daily newsletter at https://www.wgbh.org/daily?utm_Newsle... Follow GBH News on Instagram:   / gbhnews   Like GBH News on Facebook:   / gbhnews   Visit our website: https://www.wgbh.org/news Support GBH and help shape a future where facts matter, stories unite us, and everyone has access to quality media. Join us. Fund the Future: https://bit.ly/FundtheFutureYT