That's kind of up to individual voters.

For me, I won't be too unhappy if the currently proposed bill fails to get passage. Don't get me wrong--the need for healthcare reform in this country has reached a critical stage. We don't have too many more years before the costs of healthcare will either break or bankrupt many, many more individual families, or force them to join the tens of millions with no health insurance at all. I'm not wild about the current bill because it appears to be designed to satisfy every single special interest lobbyist who has paid members of Congress to draft a bill the way this one is drafted.

The things that I could embrace, were they in the proposed bill would include...

• Either a public option to provide competition to the private health insurance companies, or a law that would permit buyers to buy insurance across state lines. Either one, or a combination of the two, would introduce true competition to a business that now is almost a pure oligolpoly--great for the insurance companies, but simply awful for those insured by those companies.
• No change in Medicare funding
• Some sort of ideas that would reduce the costs of end-of-life healthcare
• National tort reform
• Some ideas which would drive private, individual doctors towards a business model like the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic or even Shands here in Florida. Those organizations are at the forefront of treating the illness, not just prescribing endless tests, treatments, surgeries and prescriptions, and are known to truly "bend the curve" of healthcare costs.
• Some sort of believable program to reduce Medicare and insurance fraud. Something with teeth in it that would likely work.
• A law that would result in true competition in the pricing of prescription drugs. Something like what results in drug prices for VA beneficiaries being 50-60% lower than what is paid by the general public with private insurance.

That's not necessarily a complete list of what I'd like to see in legislation, but it would be good for starters.