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

[NRaleighLiberal]

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.

[leftstreet]

1. By the time you're 65, SS and Medicare will probably be privatized n/t

[Cha]

2. My Rec made this a 0..

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

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I figured it could possibly be a magnet for unreccing, but could care less; it is how I feel tonight

[Political Heretic]

3. You'll still be alive to see the long term harms this bill - as is - creates.

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.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I see this is as a start of a process that will end well. Just my optimistic side showing, I guess.

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

[OhioBlue]

6. well said. k&r n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

11. you are right Change IS hard-

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

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. thanks much.

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.

[mirrera]

7. I am recommending this not out of total agreement, but because it does not deserve unrecs...

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.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. Like I said....I suspect it will be a target for unhappy Freepers or DU perfectionists!

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

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

[Fumesucker]

9. That may be, but it works both ways, plenty of unrecs from all camps..

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.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Just one of the many small aspects that make DU the fascinating, satisfying,

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

[SnoopDog]

13. It is hard to call this bill Historic...

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.

[grahamhgreen]

14. Big crapsurance is going to take the Trillions you gave them and crush all the real reform in the

bill, sorry to put it so bluntly.