Yay, Greedy Insurance Companies Get Millions More Customers!

I realize that I get more and more interested in politics the older I get, so I may have missed a few legislative wars in my forty-some years, but I can not recall a more protracted and nasty political fight as this was. Yes, Bill Clinton fought more or less the same battle and lost, but apparently he didn't have the full support of Democrats like President Obama does. Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention. In any case, good news! In just four years things will be slightly better for a few Americans, and insurance companies can continue raping their customers with abandon. Sure, it'll be a somewhat tamer form of rape, like date rape, where you go out with a guy a couple times and maybe you were thinking about sleeping with him soon anyway, but then he must have slipped you a roofie because you wake up hours later with your clothes half off, tender genitals, and the faint smells of latex, lubricant and spermicide linger in the air. As opposed to their current method akin to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez's brand of terror-rape-murder, the details of which need not be enumerated. I hope this bill is a step in the right direction.
But it has become very clear with the two biggest crises affecting this country, banking/economic reform and healthcare reform, that the 1% with all the money really are calling the shots. This healthcare bill is anemic and does not even come close to the single-payer plan that Ted Kennedy and other liberals endorsed, and Senator Dodd's Wall Street reform bill is similarly watered-down crap. It's all just smoke they're blowing up our asses. They call it reform but there are no significant regulations. They have not reinstated the Glass-Steagall Act from the Depression era which was repealed in 1999 by the Republican majority in Congress. There is no public option in this healthcare bill. It's really business as usual.
Let's move to France!