I've had many new experiences and spent time in different places ever since becoming a mother. For example, as a 20 something single woman, I rarely frequented playgrounds, museams, or...well...hospitals. Parenting has changed that Besides my own hospital stays for two c-sections, both of my children have unfortunately needed to go to the ER.

I am a Massachusetts resident. Today is the second anniversary of the passage of universal health care coverage. Two years ago, then-Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill into law to make it mandatory for all state residents to sign up for health insurance.