Early thoughts on House passage of health care reform

• This was a good thing about which many people from both parties should not be proud of how it happened.
• Kudos to the Telegram for being able to get the late story into the print editions.
• As the coaches tell each player - when you get to the end zone with the football, behave as though you've been there before.
  Nevertheless, to my family and friends who were/are Scott Brown supporters - this is how the morning of January 20 felt.
• Best tweet: Is Nancy Pelosi trying to filibuster herself?
• As with any major piece of legislation, the unintended consequences will be the most interesting part to watch, the stuff that's going to happen 10 and 20 and 30 years out. Social Security and Medicare made extended retirement possible, making life after 60 more like life and less like waiting to die.
  The entrepreneurial possibilities of universal healthcare coverage will lead   to a lot of innovative ideas in the marketplace and a lot of other stuff.
  
  
  
• To Jeff's point, no one should confuse healthcare coverage with health for all. People will still get sick, live in pain, and die prematurely because our systems for delivering medical services and helping people to stay healthy doesn't know how to or doesn't want to make all that happen. Sickness and health are too complex for any piece of legislation. 
• We don't have enough primary care services available for the expected influx of new patients.
• I'm not a lawyer, let alone someone who's very knowledgeable in the area of liability law. It's my impression, however, that most liability law is at the state level and, as such, out of the scope of the federal government.
  Do the Republicans who are howling about tort reform want to expand federal law to override state liability laws?
• We're fortunate to live in Massachusetts where the otherwise uninsurable, such as yours truly, can get coverage. Even in Massachusetts, this new legislation will have a direct impact on me and my family, notably in the area of prescription drug coverage for retirees.
• I'm glad that it's over, even if it isn't really over yet. We get our president back.