It’s the fifth and final committee version, probably the one closest to the president’s guidelines, and the product of all those "productive" meetings, produced at last.
Yet, other than Baucus, nobody seems to like it very much.
Baucus won’t have the support of the Republicans he’s been meeting with, or, for that matter, many of the Democrats he hasn’t been meeting with. (Check the math here, but you kind of need one gropuof votes or the other to get something out fo committee, much lesss off the Senate floor.)
Looks like Baucus’s plan to transcribe all of Rahm’s deals, blame the stuff that’s "unacceptably Democratic" (like the Enzi Amendment) on Republicans who won’t vote for it, and then let the White House worry about selling it is working out famously.



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Instant conventional wisdom assessment:
Both sides are against it, so it must be a good starting point.
Time to stare down the left of the left. /s
It’s crap, could have been written by the CEO of UnitedHealth. If the Democrats have any balls, it won’t even get out of committee.