winneganfake | I'm just going to soapbox for a moment, here. (Reply)

Yes, I'm happy about the healthcare reform that's happening.

Not because it's a perfect and beautiful plan, because it really truly isn't. There's a shitload of flaws. There's the lack of free public options without massive red tap to get subsidies. There's the fact that it doesn't slap mandatory price limits on medications. There's the lack of coverage for abortions and other procedures. There's the fact that it uses new taxes, instead of diverting revenue from other budgets (Honestly, I could hope military budgets would get used for anything other than military uses, even if it's for installing platinum toilet seats in the white house, but that's neither here or there.) In short, the new healthcare bill really fucking sucks.

But it passed. We're about to have a framework set in place so that every american can get healthcare of some kind, regardless of employment status, age, or income. The framework getting put in place is what's important, regardless of whether or not the damn thing goes in as a perfectly functional piece of legislation that gives everyone exactly what they wanted.

The important part is that it laid groundwork. And that it can be amended. And changed. Hells, even the Founding Fathers realized that the Constitution was only an imperfect framework- it's why we have an amendment system and the existing amendments to it. We took a big fucking step forward, however, and that means that from here on in, we've got momentum.