The Public Option Is Crap, Too

Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article is finally available online, and some Kossacks at least, are pissed about the mess.
I haven't read everything on this, so I have no opinion yet. Just an FYI.

But just to hedge its bets even further and ensure that no real reforms pass, Congress has made sure to cover itself, sabotaging the bill long before it even got to Baucus' committee. To do this, they used a five-step system of subtle feints and legislative tricks to gut the measure until there was nothing left.

UPDATE:
Okay, I've read Taibbi's piece.  It's scary.  I'm back to the pass it, then fix it  solution. Nothing else will work at this point.  Or maybe  the White House really does have something up its sleeve.  Know hope.

All that's left of health care reform is a collection of piece-of-shit, weakling proposals that are preposterously expensive and contain almost nothing meaningful — and that set of proposals, meanwhile, is being negotiated down even further by the endlessly negating Group of Six. It is a fight to the finish now between Really Bad and Even Worse. And it's virtually guaranteed to sour the public on reform efforts for years to come.