The longer this goes on, the larger the chances of Obamacare being repealed AND the public being enraged enough to make both houses blue come 2014. Two blue houses + Obama = a fighting change to pass a true national health insurance scheme with the private insurance companies cut out of providing basic coverage entirely. (They’d still be able to provide supplemental “Medigap” type policies.)
I’d call that a WIN! Hope the anti-public-insurance types dig their own grave here.