"Say that Democrats vote down their own bill. When in this magical future are we supposed to get that more perfect bill? After 2010? 2015? 2020? This just doesn’t make much sense to me."
http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/12/really-democrats-want-to-kill-a-democratic-party-platform-initiative/Andy Stern, president of the SEIU, does not believe this bill should be killed either but dramatically improved.
"Few liberals speak about health care with the credibility of Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. His organization represents more than two million unionized workers, from janitors to nurses, who care about better health care because it’s an issue that affects them personally.
...But Stern doesn’t want to kill the Senate bill. He wants to improve it--and then, when that’s done, to start fixing the dysfunctional political system that produced it."
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/andy-stern-dont-kill-the-bill-fix-it 
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