I am in tears...tears of joy as it is finally sinking in.

[BigmanPigman]

and possibly from the drink I had an hour ago. I am one of the millions that you hear about and I have been fighting so hard for 6 months to keep the ACA with improvements.

Sniff, sniff...sigh, sigh...what a relief! I can finally breath.

[MFM008]

1. I know

We just put my ailing mom in a new rehab / nursing home on her O care.
I'm sooooo relieved.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. O Care, I love it. Drop the bama and

It starts like the national anthem, "O care can you see..."

♡lmsp

[Lotusflower70]

2. Savor the moment

This is beautiful and powerful. The activism works. The calls, letters, emails, tweets and protests work. This is a unity of voices for the common good. The people prevail.

[Bradshaw3]

3. It is a great night and not becasue Dems won

Because people's lives will literally be saved.

[Alice11111]

4. Very close.MM forced a roll call vote It's dead, hopefully for good.MM implied we have to fix itnow

As Jason Kander said, the Republicans did not ha e a better idea.

[onecaliberal]

6. So glad for you and millions of us.

[pnwmom]

7. Yes, what a relief. I'm happy for all of us -- even the ones who don't know how important it is. n/t

[bearssoapbox]

8. I'm so happy for you.

My wife and I are both covered by aspects of Obamacare so that we only have to pay a little for prescriptions.

In the past 5 yrs. I've racked up over $350,000 in med bills and I'm not done yet. We've been holding off getting me into a nursing home until waiting to see what was going to happen.

My put off calling a doctor after her old one moved away. She'll call for a new one now.

It truly is a great relief.

Take care.

[Squinch]

9. Bigman, I am very happy for you.

[burnbaby]

10. when I wen to bed

I was unable to afford health care when I woke up I was still unable to afford health care.

something has to change

[BigmanPigman]

14. Right you are!

When my insur premiums alone (without out of pocket costs, co pays, Rx, etc) amd with subsidies is 25% of my income....that is a really big problem and I want it corrected and will keep fighting for that. Hold both parties accountable!

[burnbaby]

19. I'm right with you nt

[MoonRiver]

11. I'm so happy for you BP!

I know how worried you were. Sometimes good does prevail!

[RobinA]

12. Not To Be a Downer

but isn't repealing ACA declared dead about once a week, only to come up for another vote the following week? This just never seems to end.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I know and never underestimate the evil of the GOP

especially McConnell and Ryan. They can get this all started again and I half expect them to.

Older but wiser!

[Motownman78]

20. They are done until next fiscal year

Any other bill would require 60 votes. You only get 1 bite at the budget reconciliation apple per fiscal year.

[BigmanPigman]

23. That's good but McConnell changes rules constantly, can he change this too?

[Motownman78]

24. No, it is ruled by the parliamentarian.

[GulfCoast66]

15. I have great health care

And the Cadillac provision actually increased my cost no small amount.

And I am joyful today.

I pray that this is when it becomes apparent most Americans consider health care a right.

[Demtexan]

16. I have a great policy under Obama care.

Wish everybody had the same thing.

Very reasonable cost.

Total coverage.

[haele]

17. I'm happy for you. And all the others who rely on the ACA to survive.

Hopefully we'll only have to wait until Jan 2019 before we can actually fix the parts of the ACA that were f***'ed up by Rubio, Lieberman, et all.
Working on it as should have been done over the past 7 years, rather than yelling "Repeal".


Haele

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Good that ACA survives. Hopefully will be improved.

I am one of those not personally involved in the ACA and exchanges. My age puts me in the Medicare arena, not bad, but could also use some tweaking.

I only hope we can move toward single-payer or medicare-for-all.

Keep breathing. It's good for you.

[Initech]

21. The republicans can beat us in elections.

They can demonize us all they want. They can bully us. But they don't fucking own us!!!! Enjoy this victory while it lasts. We've got many more battles to fight.

[hunter]

22. Big Insurance supports "Obamacare" because the alternatives are worse for them.

Obama pulled their asses out of the fire.

It's some kind of stupid not to recognize that.

Unfortunately many or our house and senate representatives are that kind of stupid.

They are going to be shocked when big money health swats them down like flies.

The Koch bros and others of their ilk are not the big fish in this pond.