The Single-Payer Goes Banko

P-Mac makes the only worthwhile point.

Senate Democrats' leaders, looking to pass something, on Tuesday night dropped the notion of a government-run health plan. Too many of their less liberal members recognized a money pit when they saw one. Instead, the plan is to let more middle-aged people join their elders in Medicare.

Uh, guys: Medicare is government-run. It's eight years away from fiscal ruin, its own trustees reported earlier this year. This deal trades a dysfunctional plan for a laughable one.

And there's more in the column....

By the way, this is a Howard Dean idea, not a Harry Reid idea.