Health Care is a larger issue than the issue itself
If you fight the fight then run up the white flag and surrender crying Mo Mas, No Mas, then the fighting is just starting.
There are a lot of wealthy powerful groups,
anti-abortionists,
anti-gay,
anti-environment,
anti-alternative energy,
pro-drill everywhere,damn the consequences,
pro-more tax cuts for the needy rich.
If they can see that they can get everything they want just by sending groups of crazed lackeys to every public meeting, then this is worse than a defeat, it is a disaster.