The bill is not perfect, but we have a choice between complaining over what it could and should have been but isn't and praising Obama and Congress for preparing to pass nevertheless major and historic legislation.

We also need to remember that this is just the beginning of health care reform. There are millions more Americans to insure, and there are other cost-saving reforms to pass, like allowing Medicare and Medicaid to buy in bulk with proportional huge discounts from pharmaceutical companies. Walmart and other major retailers save billions by buying in bulk, and our government agencies should have that same opportunity when it comes to pharmaceuticals.

Forces are now coming together to end the Republican Party as we know it, and as that happens other needed health care reforms will be much easier to pass.

Obama is doing what presidents as far back as Teddy Roosevelt have tried and failed to do. There's an expression that goes "The perfect is the enemy of the good." We stand to gain far more by appreciating the monumental health care changes that will be passed than by whining about how those changes could have been much stronger.

We would likely not complain if we were one of the millions of people who will now have health insurance, or who don't have to worry about not receiving health insurance because of pre-existing conditions or losing their health insurance because of job changes.

This health care bill is huge. We need to celebrate it and support Obama and the Democrats as they move from this victory to creating millions of new jobs. To do less shows not only ingratitude, but poor political instincts.