I'm not sure we should take Frist's prediction as the final word. Of course we've known all along that if Reed keep all 60 Dems on board there's nothing the GOP can do to stop him. Even if he doesn't, the legislation could be brought up as an appropriations bill and passed by reconciliation (sometimes incorrectly called the "nuclear option"), which only requires 51 votes since it would then be considered a budgetary matter.
However, do the Dems really want to take that route - especially if the public continues to turn against this health care "reform" as they learn more about it? Many of them could very well be sacrificing their re-elections by passing the bill in this manner. If that turns out to be the way the process evolves, we can only hope that the GOP can take back the majority in congress by 2012 and repeal most, if not all of this disastrous legislation. Remember, it's not supposed to take effect until 2013 - they just want to start collecting taxes for it next year.
Which brings up another thought. How many of us think that this money, if collected early for two years would remain in some figurative lockbox until 2013? Considering the record deficits being run up by congress, the boy president, and his administration, I'd bet those available funds would be too tempting for the politicians to resist. They would be snagged for something else just as the Social Security funds were "borrowed" years ago, and by 2013 the only things left in the lockbox would be govt. IOUs. Then taxes would have to be raised even higher to cover this monstrous program that's in the red before it even starts.