Healthcare Reconciliation

Courtesy Donklephant  Mon, 12/28/2009 - 3:06pm

With the historic passage of a partisan health care insurance reform measure, the US Senate Majority Leader Sen.

Harry Reid kept his most recent promise to pass the bill by Christmas. Differences with the House version means that the bill will almost certainly require reconciliation and another 60-vote “filibuster override” in the Senate in 2010.

Heritage.org lists the “significant differences” between the two bills as including differences on the idea of a public option, size and reach...


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