This is a big @#$^*&^ Deal

However you feel about the health care reform being passed you have to admit that hearing the vice president swear on national tv was pretty funny. I am so on the fence. When Obama first announced he was running for president I took to the web and did all the research that I could. I was finally old enough to make a wise decision about who I would vote for. Being that I had worked in the health care industry for the last few years I felt obligated to look into the health care portion of their views. I was so excited to read about Obama's outlook on universal healthcare. We then went and saw Michael Moore's documentary 'Sicko'. I left in tears. To know that as a billing agent I was forcing people to decided on their illness vs their everyday needs. Now I am not naive. I know that there are people who could afford their bills but chose to afford other things. But I also know that people get sick, people can't pay for groceries and here I was putting their name on a list to go to a collection agency that would forever affect them. I was that person that got yelled at on the phone, the person who would hang up and cry in her cubicle. I felt that we needed a change and I was all for it. Now I am still all for it, but after all the debates and after all the talk I am so nervous for what this truly means. I know that change is good, and I know that there are people out there who need the help and could not do this unless they were forced to. Does this mean that hopefully people will take care of themselves, of their children and that disease in our country will stop spreading? That is my hope, but my concern is that my children and my children's children will be the ones who are most affected by this. They will be the ones that have to pay for the decisions that we are making today. I am hopeful and I am praying that our country can unite for the good of everyone. It was such a moment to watch the bill be signed into law, I was nursing Lily and Chloe was playing by my feet. One day my girls will read about today in a history book, and they will be doodling on some paper not understanding what it truly means. But I will tell them, and I will conclude it by letting them know what a big deal this really was. xoxo