Insurance Reform Bill Finalized!

Yesterday, March 30th, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the final Insurance reform bill into law.

It's a historic moment, and there'll be more to come no doubt as America makes the moral, sane and civilized journey Universal Health care. This reform is just the necessary beginning.

It's verging on criminal that insurance companies have gone unchecked so long, and maybe now they won't be so quick to deny children coverage simply due to pre-existing conditions. We'll have to see what happens, and let's hope the penalties are stiff enough to get insurance companies to comply.

The rest of us will have to wait for this benefit till 2014, where nobody can be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

This clause is already a part of the Universal Health care of every other civilized nation in the world. It's a small first step, but a necessary field-repair for the broken, for-profit American healthcare market-bazaar.

No fundamental change for the better is ever easy, and no fundamental moral progress has ever lacked resistance.

There were those who opposed the Revolutionary war, those who opposed the freeing of slaves and were willing to die for it (Civil War), those who opposed equal rights for women, minorities, gays, atheists, and every other oppressed group.

Today, there are those who somehow think it's wrong for the richest first-world nation in the world to offer basic healthcare for all of its citizens, when every other country in the world who has Universal healthcare does it far more cheaply and more efficiently, leaving nobody without coverage.

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

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