This was all window dressing for Dana Rohrabacher, whose single vote could have killed the disastrous medicare prescription entitlement and thus saved taxpayers hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. Instead he sold out for a face-saving promise of a vote on legislation which he knew didn't have a prayer of passing.
At least that was his publically-stated price. We don't know what his private price was.
I was disappointed that Dana too, voted for the Medicare bill. He's not perfect. He's heard from plenty grassroots folks about it. But at least he got the Congress to go on record like this.,