Unclear what, exactly, President Obama meant in his Inaugural Address when he said, “We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.”
But expect a fair bit of parsing of it in the near future.
The former senator is battling cancer. Losing him would be one more sign that a certain kind of conservatism—and a certain kind of politics—is disappearing.