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Thanks (as always) for a thoughtful analysis. The next thought experiment should be determining if it's still possible for the Democrats to cripple private health insurance and pave the way to comprehensive government control in the medium term. There has already been much talk about producing a "limited" bill including what "both sides agree on". Most of the list of agreed-on points seem to include guaranteed issue and community rating on insurance. Those two nationwide mandates will rapidly destroy the economic viability of the private health insurance industry while rapidly driving up costs. The current tentative moves towards anti-business populism by the Democrats may only be preparing the ground for a true groundswell of anger at the insurance companies – similar to today's quite palpable anger at the financial industry when 90% of our problems in that area are caused by the Feds. Solution? Single Payer! (the horror…..the horror).