As they say: it ain't over until the uninsured obese diabetic sings, but the mob may have done Obama a favor. Those of us who read whole bills ;-) may agree that the *real* important provisions are mandated coverage and insurer regulation so they can't discriminate or rescind. If there is no public option, those insurers may come to regret what they wished for and may indeed wish for the opposite before long. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
