Here’s an interesting article in the Washington Post by columnist Ezra Klein that compares health care reform by Republicans with reform championed by more liberal Democrats.  Klein points out the Senate version more closely mirrors the Republican versions of reform.

Klein takes Rep. Paul Ryan’s health care reform proposals as representing the Republican version and then compares it to the reforms of liberals, including the single payer ideas they proposed.  In almost every detail cited, the Senate version apes the Republican ideas more than those from the left.

So one is left to wondering why the Republicans were so unanimously opposed to a reform that encompasses more of their ideas than those of the left.

My answer.  The Republicans weren’t really serious about reform.  They are owned by the huge corporate interests in the existing health care industry.  They were never going to vote for reform–even if it was their reform being proposed.