Pro-Growth, Pro-Liberty Vote on Healthcare As They Exit?

Health Savings Accounts are a good start to healthcare reform, but not nearly all that should be done. Nonetheless in the current political environment we shouldn't scoff at any gains we get in terms of a more free-market approach to healthcare. I have said before that states will lead the way in terms of policy innovation, and such is the case. In a weird, Twilight Zonish development, Michael Barone reports that the one gang of Republicans that drove themselves to the lowest depths of public approval is set to pass an expansion of HSAs. Why is that these guys couldn't pass this pro-growth, pro-market, pro-liberty, pro-individual, anti-statist legislation before they destroyed their standing with voters?