Live! -- With Special Guest, Ted Kennedy

Remember how the Clintons got knocked around for putting together their ill-fated health-care plan in secret meeting behind closed doors? Lesson learned.

At 1:00pm today, C-SPAN 3 will broadcast live today's big health care summit, which will include A-Listers both inside and outside of government. (Boston.com has the list.) 

The big news is that our own Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has been recuperating in Florida (from where, I'm told, he has continued to quarterback the whole healthcare reform effort) is expected to show. The slightly smaller news is that HHS appointee Kathleen Sebelius is not expected to be there.

I have a feeling that you won't really get to see the sausage being made, but it's at least a nod toward the PR need for transparency, if not actual transparency.