To the extent this bean-hill of wonkery amounts to much, the public will never hear about it, of course. One of the easiest predictions on healthcare politics over the next many weeks is this:

McCain's plan will be portrayed as an industry-friendly, lobbyist-shaped non-reform that leaves millions of people uncovered, undercovered and suffering while the rich and the lucky who own seven houses (they think) enjoy gold-plated, platinum-priced coverage.

Obama's will be dismissed as an act of tax-and-spend FDR-era extravagance that will create a huge new bureaucracy, drive god-fearing businesses out of healthcare entirely, suck the working class dry and lead the country down that slippery slope toward Stalinistic central control. 

But back to reality. This is easy to predict too: 

Any evenutal reform to healthcare, regardless of who wins, is going to become the usual mess based first on ideological inclination and then processed through the machine of money, industry influence, political pandering and either "compromise" or "cooperation," depending on how one views unwillingness to demand absolutes.

And this will occur no matter who the vice president is.