The History Book on the Shelf Is Always Repeating Itself

I was born in 1965, the year Congress passed Medicare, the last truly monumental piece of social legislation before the historic healthcare reform bill passed this evening.

In ten years' time or less, the United States may well have a public healthcare system that compares favorably to France's, Canada's, or Great Britain's.

It's up to us. As always, contentious and compromised though we may be, fighting liberals will build the next piece of the road together that leads the way to a better consensual commonsense commonwealth for us all, peer to peer -- as we built the last piece and this piece, too, tonight.