One thing I don't think some people get in this whole debate about Health Care Reform is that there are consequences, apparently dire ones, to not fixing the system. The G.O.P. plan, such as it is, seems to be to smack down trial lawyers and protect the insurance and drug companies with tort reform…and a few Repubs want to enrich the insurance companies by allowing them to sell across state lines. That's darn near the whole proposal and those two things wouldn't do much to stem rising costs. Check out this article about the problems that the Republicans don't seem to want to solve.