You get what you pay for. And thats true. But as this health care law is proving almost every week now, you get what you dont plan for, too.

Health care reform gets all the press. All the love. All the hate. All the controversy.

As head of Cox Smiths employee benefits/ERISA and tax practice groups, Josh Sutin assists clients with the challenges facing businesses today.

Sure, its from a comic strip. About corporate life. But it still worksprobably more than ever. And yet theres so much of it we take for grantedor simply forget how little of it we used at the turn of the century.

1993U.S. Sen. John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, introduces the Health Equity and Access Reform Act, which includes a mandate, complete a non-compliance penalty. Supporters include Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Republican Kit Bond from Missouri.

Not to get too deep at a trade show in sunny Southern California, no less but I worry sometimes that maybe we're too close to this thing. Especially when it comes to health care reform.

We can argue all conference long about health care reform, about what exactlys going to happen in January and whether any of us will still have jobs by December or next years Benefits Selling Expo.

A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.