Andrew Bindman, a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, where a quarter of ward-time is taken up by homeless people, speculates that as the gap between the insured and the uninsured continues to widen, and as the number of those without coverage extends further into the middle class, it will become politically impossible to ignore.
Four Lib Dem MPs - Sarah Teather, David Ward, Julian Huppert and John Leech - voted against the government while Charles Kennedy and Andrew George abstained on the second reading of the legislation needed to implement the three-year cap.