Hey, let's give thanks for government

Here’s another reason to be thankful: The success of the Affordable Care Act.

Despite incessant political attacks and a horrendous start for the website, the program has cut the number of Americans without health insurance by 25 percent. That means about 3 million more of our fellow Americans have health insurance than did so before Democrats in Congress acted. And a Gallup poll recently reported 70 percent of people with “ObamaCare” rate the plan as excellent or good.

There is good news, too, for those of us who had health insurance before the new law. Now young people can stay on their parents’ healthcare plan until they are 26; there are no more lifetime limits on how much insurance companies can spend if you get sick; seniors are saving because the plan is closing the spending gap or “Donut Hole” in Medicare; and the U.S. Treasury recovered billions of dollars with its new effort to stop Medicare fraud as part of the healthcare plan.

And finally, here is a prayer of thanks for world peace.