Just a quick post to remind us all of the incredible historic relevance of the HCR victory.

I am 54. In our home, when we speak of things like social security, medicare, Civil rights - just earth shattering, huge positive changes.

Well, it is not always easy to recognize or appreciate huge historic events when we are in the midst of it, when so much sweat and noise and slurs and awful to watch legislation and lies occurred surrounding it.

But this is quite huge. It will change the lives of my two daughters who have not been able to get good (indeed, any) health coverage.

We need to all pinch ourselves on this one. It is one that we will be telling our grandkids about...or at least, if we don't have any, discussing with our friends on some porch on a nice summer evening 10-20-30 years from now.

And just something about Obama. I've had my emotional ups and downs about him the last year, following the great, tingling excitement of working for his election, seeing it work out - seeing NC turn blue!!!.

I think that for the rest of his term, I am going to relax a bit. I think he's got this. I am going to chill out just a bit. The next six years will provide more positive surprises and more advancement for our badly Bush-bruised country, I think.

thanks for your OP..I'm so glad you and your kids will be helped by the HRC.

Now its law, we all accept this. But if we don't get immediately to fixing the critical flaws passed into law with this legislation, the legacy will not be of a historic victory, but of a historic failure.

Change is hard and takes time. All changes that are worthwhile are that way.

and though this bill is far from what I would have wanted- it is a step-forward.

I was really hopeful when Pres. Clinton tried to make healthcare for all a reality way back in the '90's. It's been a LONG- painful (literally) wait. It's very doubtful this bill will help me personally, but I know it WILL help many others- and that IS an improvement.

Glad to hear it will likely help your daughters. :hi:

K&R

One of my girls has a preexisting (she is 24), the other, 28, spent 2 years in the Peace Corps and returned to find terrible job prospects. Both deserve much better (both are strong lefties, just like mom and dad). but both are realists and recognize the mess our country is in and the time it will take for Obama and those good Dems to follow to fix things.

For goodness sakes people! Unrecs were supposed to prevent Brittany threads from rising to the top out of our natural curiosity. Not to sink a perfectly reasonable opinion!
Sheesh.

Or at least people a bit too impatient for immediate results. Or...or....

Too good a mood to let it bother me at all!

In fact it seems there are people who automatically unrec due to who the poster is and not due to the content of a post, to be fair I think it works the other way too sometimes, people get automatically recced..

FWIW, I neither recced nor unrecced this OP.

Edited for speling.

sometimes stressful and agonizing place we all know and love so well!

When the majority of the bill simply removes (some and not all and not at all immediately)
the most barbaric inhumane uncivilized unethical practices of the Health Insurance (Leech) industry.

bill, sorry to put it so bluntly.