From the Atlantic's Megan McArdle re the Senate Health Care Bill:

No bill this large has ever before passed on a straight party-line vote, or even anything close to a straight party-line vote. No bill this unpopular has ever before passed on a straight party-line vote. We're in a new political world. I'm not sure I understand it.

Oh welcome to Obama Chicago Style. Ms. McArdle goes on to write:

The irony of this is that this bill is great for me personally. I'm probably uninsurable, and I'm in a profession where most people now end up working for themselves at some point in their career. So mandatory community rating is great news for me and mine. But I think that it's going to be a fiscal disaster for my country, because the spending cuts won't be--can't be--done the way they're implemented in the bill. We've just increased substantially the supply of unrepealable, unsustainable entitlements. We've also, in my opinion, put ourselves on a road that leads eventually to less healthcare innovation, less healthcare improvement, and more dead people in the long run. Obviously, progressives feel differently, and it will never be possible to prove the counterfactual.

Yes, this will fundamentally change our country. Taxes will reach the moon after a decade of this implementation. Welcome to the United States of Unsustainable Debt.

The good news, no public option, no expansion of Medicare. The bad news (some of it): massive expansion of Medicaid, lesser care for all.

It is such a shame that this was not done in a bipartisan fashion, with tort reform, insurance pools for the self-employed that didn't resort to forcing women to buy insurance that discriminates against them and forcing what, exactly, is covered.

I want to end with a comment on Megan's blog re the cost of this bill:

The CBO has made it as clear as they possibly can that they are being forced to include "savings" that are in the bill which they know will never, ever, ever happen. It will become an annual kabuki ritual, just like the Medicare "savings". The CBO is required to score what is in the bill, but everybody who knows anything about what is going on knows that all of the "savings" will be repealed basically immediately.

Besides, you didn't even have to know that. You could just think: "Can any bill ever increase government spending on health care per person and increase the number of people getting government subsidies, yet not tax 99% of Americans other than a tanning tax, and not dramatically increase the deficit?" Of course not.

Well said Jeff W.