Republicans will let health care drop because this debate was never about health care....
Excellent commentary by Ted Frier that sums it up quite well:
Republicans will let health care drop because this debate was never about health care. Health care was just the convenient vehicle -- a proxy -- for the deeper fears residing within the GOP/Tea Party base that they and all White Christians like them are being supplanted by other groups as America's top dog.
That is why the phrase "Takeover" resonated so strongly in this debate even though it had nothing at to do with the bill at hand, which was not a government takeover of health care but a massive subsidy to a private system in exchange for a few extra regulations....[MORE]
-Ted Frier, The Washington Monthly 3/25/10