Nice try, you have been in the Senate as long as the departed Ted Kennedy, that alone says alot of where your politics and abilities come from...not what the Big Sky ad campaigns  promote.  Never mind that American workers are already saddled with 4 deduction lines on a paycheck for (FIC,SIT,MedC, & SSI) you want to include a new line for 'mandatory' health insurance, well go to the line that includes Flag Burning buster!  It was a miracle after a several hour wait that you actually felt the urge to get in front of the cameras in DC to promote a Bill that your other Gang of 6 couldn't join..lonely territory for a supposedly astute committee.  It would make sense if you threw Market based proposals in same as the auto world or groceries and clothes competes in, and Tort Reform, but NO...another sop to the democratic left special interest polluters.  How much of that money would end up in the trial lawyers pockets before the usual tithing to a politician at election time? And you put blame on the Insurance Cos. that actually with their faults are collecting the money and paying the bills and solvent even with 50% being non-profit, better than the USPS.  The President said "not a dime..", but your Bill asks for $856B!  I mean if your DC friends think the Fanny& Freddy are Dodd enough, what is a mandate to ...buy something or the IRS is going to fine them going to precipitate if you didn't like the August Townhalls?  YOU want a mandate...pass a NEW Constitutional Amendment that will make a citizen buy your demand(s). 

If the party,democrats, that passed most of these social programs, whether of good intention, didn't work through constitutional mean, but the machinations of the seperation of powers and a weak disposition at times of those seperations, and a sleepy populous...not today dude.  Take a pet to a trough and think thirst, then remember your wallet or a neighbors...right, politicians always think someone else has a bigger wallet..seems we have big potholes and other infrastructure failure despite all the money that went ACORN AMERICA'S HEZBOLLAH. 

Pass an Amendment XXVIII to make me buy the governments's demand, and I'll play this health care game, otherwise go to a Townhall and explain your ability to demand your constituents 'hard earned labor', and remind them of the Flag burning Amendment while you're dreaming of passing this garbage bill.