If you read it straight, this editorial in today's NYT would be predictably outraging -- classic liberal splitting the difference and then splitting it again until there's nothing but chaff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/opinion/12tue2.html
But if you read it against the grain, it's kind of cheering: it implies that the reason politicos like Max Baucus are being so extremist in their attempts to foreclose the public option is because the insurance companies are scared to death that competition between private and public would rapidly lead to their demise.
What an encouraging view! I hope they're right.
Michael