Yes!

It is also so refreshing and even inspiring to see that in the end demagoguery and malicious falsehoods did not triumph. We shouldnt expect that the braying from the GOP will stop any time soon, however. They see political gold in disseminating smears about the bill, but time will tell.

What this shows is that the President and Democrats need to continue pressing their story and the benefits of this bill for millions and millions of Americans.

I find it interesting that while the President used the insurance companies as whipping boys in the last stretch of his campaign to get the bill passed, those same insurers didnt say To hell with it. They protested the vilification, all right, but somehow were able to keep focused on the balm of millions of new customers amid the public lashings.

This is by no means the radical bill that the right would have you believe. This is no government takeover of health care. If it was, there would be no place for private insurers in it. A government takeover would be something like Medicare for all and this legislation doesnt even come close to that.

This bill may not be perfect but it goes a long way toward eliminating the stain of having America be the only major democracy in the world whose citizens were not guaranteed health coverage. And for that, we can hold our heads higher.