EZRA KLEIN SHOWS US THAT THE GOP WAS LISTENED TO

He lists 4 GOP proposals that are included in the Senate bill:

(1) "Let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines."

...the Senate health-care bill included a compromise with the conservative vision for insurance regulation. The relevant policy is in Section 1333, which allows the formation of interstate compacts.

(2) "Allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do."

This is the very purpose of the exchanges, as defined in Section 1312.

(3) "Give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs."

Section 1302 of the Senate bill does this directly. The provision is entitled "the Waiver for State Innovation," and it gives states the power to junk the whole of the health-care plan -- that means the individual mandate, the Medicaid expansion, all of it -- if they can do it better and cheaper.

(4) "End junk lawsuits."

The Senate bill proposes to deal with this in Section 6801, which encourages states to develop new malpractice systems and suggests that Congress fund the most promising experiments.