The US May Have Finally Begun the Long Journey Toward catching Up with Europe
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010What can I say? It’s about damn time.
With a sense of generational history in the making, President Barack Obama today signed into law a sweeping healthcare overhaul that offers insurance to an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans and provides new guarantees of more secure coverage for all.
Obama, who sought passage of this legislation for more than a year, portrayed it as an achievement on an historic par with the passage of Social Security after the Great Depression and Medicare in the 1960s.
We won. America won. Despite fear-mongering and scare tactics from the right. If they had gotten their way America would, sadly, continue on as it had for the past 200 years. It makes me sick to even think about it. I’m sure the rich old white people of the GOP didn’t learn anything from it, though. Sometimes people are oblivious to things right in front of their faces.
Also, has anyone else noticed that doing the correct (I hate to use the word “right,” anymore) thing goes hand-in-hand with a collapsing economy? Guess it’s the universe keeping karma balanced.
It feels good to be back. Maybe now that medical care is free I can quit my job at JC Penny and commit to this blog full-time. I feel guilty sometimes for keeping so many of my thoughts to myself. People at work have basically shunned me because they can’t handle too much truth.