Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
The thing is that we don't have universal healthcare. What we have is a sorta-kinda gov't intervention in how health insurers can do business. Which is beneficial but there's no public option, no single-payer, no medicare buyin; and the only way it really covers 30 million more Americans is by telling 30 million more Americans to buy health care coverage. I'm not a fan of the bill, but I support it as a good first step.
Yup.

Although, this bill was pushed against so hard and took so long to get done, that I doubt we'll see further reform anytime in the near future.