Here's great insight into how Congress works. Health Care reform is a game of chicken. Some members arr pretending to be opposed to the bill so that they may be able to get goodies for their districts:
...if the representative wants to extract concessions from the Democratic leadership, it’s thus a good idea to signal uncertainty or even opposition to the bill — as many conservative Democrats have done. This raises the possibility, as one friend noted to me, that the prevalence of these signals in news stories may inflate the perceived chance that health care reform will fail in the House.
Perhaps the health care bill has more support than is being reported
