Too bad they won't consider it.
Instead of:
...seeing that all payers (government Medicare/Medicade, private insurance, self-pay) are billed the SAME amount (right now costs are subsidized by higher billing amounts to private insurance and even higher billing to those who self-pay).
...seeing that consumers can save tax deferred money in health savings accounts for out of pocket expenses. Ted Kennedy was a strong opponent of this. He's dead now. Let's move on.
...other proposals have included portability of insurance across state lines and other options.
But shackling us under a 1000 page version of the 1300 page bill still brings us Obamacare incrementally.