UPDATE: Markos calls on Twitter for bill to be killed:
@markos Insurance companies win. Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate.Washington Post:
Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus meeting Monday night determined to pass a health-care bill by Christmas -- but without the Medicare buy-in plan that liberals had sought as an alternative to a government insurance option....Oh honey, the good left the barn of this administration and this congress so long ago you wouldn't even recognize it.
"To use an old cliche, the general consensus was we shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good," Bayh said.
