This is the point Steyn was making in a column a couple of months ago and why we should be doing everything we can to keep any bill from being passed.
Once a health-care reform is passed into law, it will only get bigger. The Dems know that it will be impossible to kill at that point and they will eventually get what they want.
This is about setting us a control framework. The GOP should not be the party of no, they should be the party of Hell no.