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Maybe because "conservative" vs "liberal" are broad terms hard to define, much like the "pro life" label.

support for keeping abortion legal has remained in the 60s and 70s percentage wise, a majority of the population support cap and trade, a majority support allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the US, a majority now supports at least civil unions for same sex marriage, social security and medicare are as popular as ever, and so on and so forth.

The "conservative" and "liberal" labels mean nothing at the level of policy.

Now, to get back to the issue at hand, I find it simply absurd that of all the elements of the bill, the part with a public option that is federally mandated to break even every year and cannot negotiate special deals is the one that is getting killed off. I mean, how can anyone who supports reform be against an additional option that is mandated to be self sufficient? That right there is the best example of the lobbying power of insurance companies.