Gang of Six seems to be dying

Montana Senator Max Baucus, the head of the Senate Finance Committee, said on Monday that health-care reform will pass this year, even if Republicans back out of bipartisan negotiations. This matters because Baucus is the head of the so-called Gang of Six—three Democratic and three Republican senators who have been negotiating over the bill.
Until recently, the White House has not remarked on any of the " Gang of Six ", but The White House press secretary Robert Gibbs recently slammed Senator Mike Enzi after he used the GOP’s weekly radio address to attack health care.

Baucus predicts health care overhaul this year

All of this makes it seem like the Dems are going to go this alone - without even their own moderate Dems - which honestly puts the public option back on the table.