Spring Break and Health Care

Wow - I've taken a bit of a break, but it's Spring  Break time and it was definitely time for a break.  I figure I just traveled about 2500 miles over the last week and a half. 

It's an interesting time isn't it?  Our plants are budding, but not yet green;  there's snow on the ground in the mountains and 80's in the desert.  Spring is a time of change and now we have change in our country: Health Care - finally.

I was busy running around the west going to drum shows, driving, flying and having a wonderful visit with my mom and then on a 7 hour drive back to AZ I got the text from my "progressive, socialist, leftist" friend letting me know that the votes were in and the votes said YES to health care reform.

I'm really not sure why Republicans want to repeal this new bill: why would we want to deny health insurance to children?  Why would we want our senior citizens to pay more for their prescriptions?  Why keep allowing the insurance companies to deny insurance because they have a pre-existing condition?  I really don't understand the logic: why are Republicans for Social Security and Medicare, but against Health Insurance?  Hopefully this will all make sense as the reform rolls out over the next 6 months to 6 years.

So today was a beautiful Spring day, the first day after Spring Break, and a beautiful day for democracy; the day after the Health Care Reform bill signing - change is all around me.  I think I need a vacation to recover from my Spring Break, but I feel warm and happy knowing that Spring is on it's way and so is health care for millions.