Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may have gotten enough votes Saturday to prevent a Republican filibuster against the health care bill, but the debate is far from over.

The Senate voted to advance the bill that would cost $959 billion over 10 years, but according to the Associated Press, it could still leave 12 million Americans uninsured.

The bill would require all U.S. citizens to carry health insurance, with government aid available to help pay premiums for those in lower-income brackets.

But even with the federal help, many middle-class families would still struggle to pay premiums.

All insurance companies would be prevented from denying coverage or charging more for people with health problems, and new markets would be created for those who have trouble acquiring, and keeping, insurance.

To pay for the bill, the Senate is suggesting a tax on high-cost insurance plans, a Medicare payroll hike on the wealthy, and fees on medical industries. The House’s bill would rely primarily on an income tax hike for higher earners to pay for expanded coverage.

Republican Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both of Oklahoma, voted against Saturday’s measure.

Inhofe had a number of concerns with the bill.

“We need reforms, but this bill is not a good product and its substance is questionable,” said Inhofe in statement to the press Monday. “Republicans want to ensure that a Washington bureaucrat does not get between patients and their doctors, denying you the medical care you need. This bill includes the public option, otherwise known as a government-run option. Government-run, universal health care, or socialized health care, is not the answer, as evidenced by the state of health care in other nations that use this model, like Canada, or Great Britain.”

Coburn, also a medical doctor, has recently drawn fire for his opposition to the measure, but he claims the bill is “reckless, irresponsible and dishonest.”

“The bill’s mandate that all Americans must buy insurance is an unconstitutional and unworkable assault on individual liberty and personal responsibility,” said Coburn on Saturday.

“If this passes, millions of younger, healthy Americans will save thousands of dollars every year by dropping coverage until they get sick. The low penalties of not buying coverage in the bill, combined with assurances that no one can be denied coverage, will push younger and healthier Americans out of the system, leaving older Americans to endure sky-rocketing costs.”

The Daily Press posted an online, unscientific poll, asking readers what they thought the biggest problem is with health care, from a number of choices.

Of 38 respondents, 31.58 percent indicated they believe the problem is that insurance premiums are too high, and so are deductibles and co-pays.