"'Cost of what? If they put limits on what the insurance companies can charge, how is that not "doing something to control cost"?'"

             The cost of health care. The cost of insurance is only part of the problem, and that's pretty easily dealt with. In order to do anything constructive over the long term, they need to do something about the cost of care itself.
             The best way to do that is to protect health care professionals and hospitals from frivilous suits. That would do away with a lot of what they are calling "defensive medicine." I would also lower the cost of malpractice insurance.
             If they kept the part in the bill about training more health care professionals, that would help too. I haven't heard how that part of the bill did. It was up against the AMA and others.