Looks like the Democrats are trashing the health care proposal themselves. Must have something to do with competing interests. Many Democrat senators have a taste for graft and corruption and this medical insurance thing is going to dry up the funds for that.
As I understand it, the taxes to support this, especially in the face of a double dip recession and declining US credit is shaking up to 100 Blue Dogs into neutrality.
They want nothing to do with a Hillary Style self-implosion. Even Jim Caravile said a couple of years ago that HC is a loser issue to actually make policy on; too many interests at the table.
Anyone with half a brain also understands that the “public option” is simply a more gradual approach to goverment monopoly. Kennedy, Obama, Pelosi and nearly the entire leadership have said so, on tape, in the recent past.