For more background, see Jon Walker’s “Best Way To “Fix It Later” Is With No Individual Mandate Now.” If they want to punt on the public option, they should punt on the mandate too.

With debate officially beginning at 3 pm today in the Senate, Ezra Klein makes a good point about the relatively static state in which health care reform has been: If you had tuned in six months ago for 10 minutes, you would have had all the information necessary to predict exactly where we’d be today. Democrats [...]