Well, once again, we the people have lost.

[Kablooie]

329. The problem is..

that if it's killed it will probably be a decade or more before any politician will seriously consider pushing a new health plan considering how contentious this one was.

Another post surmised that many people will either not pay the mandate and risk the penalty, which is only the price of current health care insurance, or pay the penalty because it will be less than the insurance fee.

This will create just what the insurance companies don't want, a lot of sick people in their system and a lot of healthy people avoiding it. This could vaporize their profits. If they raise prices too much they will simply drive more healthy people out of the system.

The bill as it stands could be the death knell for the health insurance companies. It will take time for it all to shake out but that time period will probably be much less than what it would take to get a full single payer system approved and running if we started from scratch.