2019 - 2012 !!! Three cheers for the good guys!

The House of Representatives Comes Through!

One little clip that I borrowed from one of the first news reports this evening had the following:

Today's public roll-call vote on the health care bill has every House member vote on these key questions:

Q: end the right of insurance companies to deny someone insurance because of pre-existing conditions?
A: Repubs - NO, Dems - YES

Q: end the practice of insurance companies who cut people's insurance off when they're still sick and starting to cost the insurance company too much money?
A: Repubs - NO, Dems - YES

Q: allow young adults up to age 26 to remain on his or her parent's health insurance?
A: Repubs - NO, Dems - YES

Q: reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion in the next ten years and $1.2 trillion over twenty years?
A: Repubs - NO, Dems - YES

I've never been less proud of our (usually) patriotic and compassionate Republicans in Congress! Several of the Republican House members must have held their stomachs tight knowing that they voted AGAINST a historic bill that follows in the footsteps of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Health, after all, is a civil right too, isn't it?

100% of the House Republicans voted NO!

Chalk one up for Pelosi and Obama! ... And yes, Senator Reid too, of course, as the changes are made in the bill passed earlier by the Senate in accordance with the reconciliations made today!

After the unsuccessful efforts made by Hillary Clinton back in 1992, she too should get some credit too. I'll bet she felt relieved that it finally happened after almost two decades since her courageous stand against the insurance companies and (at that time) Big Pharm. I watched those hearings live way back then and it was largely why I supported her in the primaries.

It was a good day for humanity, but especially for the uninsured and underinsured American citizens.