Thanks for the info. I had deduced as much, but I was asking about the legal side of things. Is there anything more concrete than "endorsed by" (which I take to mean "they said nice things about it)? I understood "Democrats opened the door to" as meaning something like perhaps a tax or legal incentive for these plans: I just wanted to know the specifics because government involvement in our healthcare system is complex enough that it could have been any of a million possible things.