No health care bill...no problem...

Here are some of the consequences (short and long term) of no healthcare reform:

• Rising healthcare costs will worsen the deficit increasing the cost of our debt and squeezing federally provided services and/or raising taxes.
• Rising insurance costs will reduce the number of people who can afford insurance; while coverage grows increasingly arcane and more people are denied care.
• Uninsured who get sick will be bankrupted more often and join the new poor putting serious strain on the middle class whose consumption fuels our economy.
• Businesses will be less competitive as the cost of benefits rise.
• Healthcare costs will increasingly dominate family and business budgets, reducing hiring and causing other areas of the economy suffer making the economy as a whole becomes less resistant to shocks.

Many aspects of the current health bill are almost too bad to stomach, however, the bill also contains a number of elements that are widely popular with Americans.