Esultate! Health Care Wins

Esultate!
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Some of you my biggest fans and best friends are pretty pi-ohed right now. I consider my fans to be some of the most highly developed people  - ever. Yet sometimes we have our disagreements.

Some of us have had long discussions, flame wars and otherwise somewhat conflicting correspondences. Always the music gets put to the side for a few minutes so that we can tousle around whatever subject is being bandied about.

I'm sorry to be such a Yawpe about this health care reform thing, but this is such a big deal to me and my family, not to mention a sizeable number of fans. Beset with health problems, most of my peeps are not rich and suffer the middle-class woes that this previous health care era has laid upon them.

Extraordinary large bills, bankruptcy and poor health outcomes have been at the heart of my favoring reform.

I'll give you, my friends in opposition, this bill may be unpopular in some manner and may have things yall absolutely loathe in it, but I wager, though not perfect, this IS cool that we can give our population a chance to be healthier, to have care when sick and have a possibly better life. That we have to do it by using money that is actually already IN the budget, that we endeavor to make our neighbors healthier = is fine by me. 

This is not a socialist agenda. This is an agenda that I and millions of other people VOTE-ED on. It is a Democratic agenda. It was a majority vote and the majority won the right to have this be an agenda. The majority voted to have health care for its people. 

Perfect? No. I'm not satisfied with the bill either. However I'll stand for it, as it was the minority opposition that allowed it to go as far as it could go. Opposition from all sides of the equation... It is a bill that took one hundred years to pass. I think it could be better, but for the millions of people that the bill positively affects, I'll take step one and see how it works.

Maybe some things just don't work. Maybe more things need to be added. At least now we have some basic protections that allow better, more reliable and consistently positive results, rather than a homeless lady being left in the emergency room bleeding to death. 

You can vote later to have your ideas of a more perfect union enacted upon, but this reform bill and subsequent votes are in direct correlation to the past vote. If you get out there, join in union with other people and form coalitions enough to get the numbers to make a change in the direction YOU are thinking, the votes on bills will be in YOUR favor and I will be forced to get off my duff again and pound the street as your agenda of free market mayhem make my eyeballs peel.

It's like this all the time. And it hurts like heck when it isn't your philosophical bent, or whatever.  It's a battle of rhetoric, words, ideas and ideals in democratic order to make life better for us in the US.

I admit to being exhilarated about this bill. We worked for it really hard. The election of Barack Obama was not just me and other folks sitting back and writing about it, this health care reform wasn't just us yammering on about how we'd like this or that... We were out there, a lot of folks, trying to make a positive change in this world. 

Yea, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous lies and disparaging comments, we have dragged our population to fulfill change.

I thank my Congressman, Emmanuel Cleaver and my Senators McCaskill and Bond, I thank my fellow citizens, fans, family, friends alike for taking this trek. Arguing, pitching boiling oil of words means nothing when the deal is done.

As I always say to my colleagues when we do a show, If nobody has killed anyone by the time we get to show opening (READ: signing of the bill) it was an absolute success.