We've got ours, too bad for you!

The election results in my home state of Massachusetts yesterday seem to bode ill for the passage of health care reform. Of course, Massachusetts went through this exercise half a decade ago, and all state residents are now covered by a plan similar to the one pending in Congress. If I seem to have a couple of dogs in this fight, I do. At the Nora School, our health plan costs have been going up 20% each year, necessitating benefit cuts on our teachers to maintain reasonable costs. My adult son, the genetic inheritor of a pre-existing condition (type 1 diabetes), cannot get health insurance unless he works for an employer who offers it. Or moves to Massachusetts.