The Two Biggest Parts of the Health Reform Drama not yet Resolved

Almost everything Obama has said about what he wants will not be in the actual final law, which you can bet comes from the executive offices and boardrooms of the biggest health insurance companies. I mean, in the primaries, Obama said he wasn't even in favor of the mandate, which however, has been the only thing that has seemed to be a 100% certainty from the start of "negotiations".

In other words, the resulting law will be in most respects essentially completely the opposite of what Obama has claimed to want. Even by political standards, this is an especially rank and disgusting betrayal of voters and others who hoped Obama might actually mean what he says on occasion.

But now we know: Obama never means what he says. (Or almost never, maybe if he says he's going to the White House kitchen to grab a snack, he might mean that, laugh out loud.)

As for the "reform" most everyone here knows it is not really reform and that there is a 100% chance that it will fail. So there is no sense me wasting any time going through those aspects again.

The two biggest parts of this drama not resolved yet are:

(a) can the house and senate progressives (along with some right wingers) defeat this worse than nothing law?

(b) How many years will it take for the economy in general, and for jobs creation in particular, to be completely crushed by out of control health care costs?

[The above is in response to this article.]