Preference on healthcare reform issue

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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

If the house passes the Senate Bill there is no need for "reconciliation". It goes straight to Obama for his lefty signature. Do you understand how this all works? That is why the fight in the house is so crucial. If they make CHANGES to the bill, it goes back to the Senate for a new vote. Then and only then does "reconciliation" rear it's ugly head.

exactly. obama and pelosi are working the house, promising to make any changes they want if they just trust them, and vote for the bill as is. lol if their lips move, a pol is lying.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...LEFTTopOpinion


President Obama may wind up just signing the Senate bill into law no changes whatsoever -- preserving some of the most egregious elements that made the Senate bill such a public lightning rod.

These include not just the "Cornhusker Kickback," "Louisiana Purchase" and other special-interest deals rolled into the Senate bill last December to buy wavering Democratic votes. Democrats also would have to explain all over again why 800,000 seniors in Florida will be spared Medicare Advantage cuts, while those elsewhere won't.


Meanwhile, President Obama met with 20 undecided House Democrats yesterday in private. He urged them to put aside their political concerns and vote for the Senate bill in the interests of duty and country. "It's always a bad sign when a chief executive tells members of Congress of his own party to ignore the politics," says presidential historian Al Felzenberg. "It usually means he's got a bad product."