Obamacare ends corporate invasion of privacy.

[Ms. Toad]

65. I am not willing to allow everyone to continue to drown

just because the law doesn't fix everything for everyone immediately. After decades of not being able to make any progress at all. The last significant reform was HIPAA, which allowed people who already had health insurance to keep the insurance at whatever rate the insurance companies wanted to charge. The one before that was COBRA - a similar fix, again for people who already had insurance through a job, limited to those who had jobs with large employers.

This reform helps those who need it most - the poor, and those who have pre-existing conditions who have not been able to obtain access to health care except by paying full price for whatever the doctors bill.

Being thrilled at greater access to care for those for whom it has been farthest out of reach has absolutely nothing to do with class, loving insurance companies, or being clueless about poverty. It has to do with sending out what lifeboats there are even though there aren't enough for everyone yet. And feel free to work your tail off to get single payer passed, but stop telling my daughter, and others with chronic illnesses, or single people who happen to be poor and not currently eligible for Medicaid, that they have reject these major improvements just because it was impossible to get a perfect solution after decades of trying.