Inching Towards Health Care Reform

Hi it's me again.

I'm writing just a little update on the Health Care Reform Topic. Good news - ever so slow, but inching towards a bill being passed.

Last night, the House passed their Health Care Reform Bill by a narrow margin. They got 220 votes, needed 218. Yikes!

Anyway, it's good news because it means now the Senate can call for their vote as well. The House Bill was pretty wide and all encompassing, so expect the Senate Bill to be more conservative so that in negotiations, they can meet somewhere in the middle. Politics, politics, my pretties!

I'd like to urge everyone to actually read this bill. It's huge, a lot of verbage. But if you really want to know what's actually there, please feel free. And it's a lot better than listening to all the negative talking points and little snippets out of context that everyone has. Yes there are some regulations, OK a lot of them - but they are there to protect the citizens. There is also a lot of reform and change in this bill.

Stayed tuned here for updates and talking points. I'm going to try to read a little each day so that I can keep everyone informed on what's actually in the final bill.

I think it's important to remember that this is all a slow process. I know a majority of Americans voted for President Obama wanting change. If you remember, he always said it in his speeches - he said that things may not be different for years, some things wouldn't get accomplished even in his first 4 years. Change is slow, a lot slower than we'd all like. We're a generation of instant gratification. And it's hard to ask people who aren't working or who are drowning in debt, to be patient. But we all need to do just that.

Once we get past this big hurdle and I sure hope we do - at least in some effective form, we can all move on to other important issues that will get our economy back on track.

So if you want to check out the bill, click here. It's not a great copy. You have to click back and forth on all the sections. I'm guessing in a few days, there will be a complete copy online. Or you can go to this link - this is a copy of the 1990 page bill without the amendments.

Anyway, take care and keep checking back.