Excited or Angry

MSN asks us f we are excited or angry over the passage of the Health Care legislation. I voted excited, of course. I think that more needs to be done, but our guys in Washington took a giant step today. The majority of the respondents, however, voted in the "angry" column. Some of my friends would have been among those votes (if they even bothered).

Most of the people I talk to did feel that something needed to be done. I have several friends who aren't quite old enough for Medicare, who lost jobs this down economy, and who are currently without health insurance. One friend had a super high deductible until she hit Medicare last year. These people worked hard most of their lives and did nothing personally to cause the economy to crash. Those who didn't want the legislation to pass tend to be people who have the same great CalPERS insurance Alex and I have or Medicare and a good supplement. I'm not quite sure why it's OK for the taxpayers to pay for our insurance, but not for that of people who were unlucky in the private sector.

Maybe only Republicans and rich folk vote in those polls. As for me, I'm very pleased that we have joined several countries much further advanced than the United States in saying that we care about all of our citizens. Alex's Aunts and Uncles in Scotland get great care on the public plan. May we all be just as lucky.