Little-spoken in the celebration or posturing is that health care reform is really a victory for the middle class, a blessing in our new economy.

Drew Magary explains how it affects the growing economic mass that he calls the freelance economy:

All I know is this: Yesterday, when this bill passed, I exhaled just ever so slightly. As one of the millions of Americans working without a net, the idea that A) Insurers can’t turn my family down, and B) Insurers can’t drop me if I get cancer or something horrible like that… Well, that’s very nice.