Reconciliation will be used, and here is the bill.

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Glad the public option's back, at least. It was fruitless to try and sacrifice it to make nice with an opposition that doesn't want to do anything but obstruct.

1. They didn't sacrifice it to make nice with Republicans, they sacrificed it because there were too many Democrats in the Senate who wouldn't vote for anything with a public option.

2. This is an old bill, so the public option is coming back out. Pelosi herself said just the other day, "The public option is dead. Get over it." What they're going to do is mark it up for this Slaughter trick, which is a grossly unconstitutional way of trying to pass legislation. The Constitution specifically says that a bill must pass the House and Senate before being signed into law. The House cannot pass another piece of legislation (i.e. this reconciliation vehicle) that simply deems something to have passed when it didn't... but that's exactly what they're trying to do.

3. Who could possibly be in favor of this awful bill? If you believe that health care is a right (I personally don't see how you can possibly claim the right to someone else's labor), this bill will not make health care a right; it will make health insurance an obligation.

We can claim a right to exercise a certain living standard, which includes health. And either way, no public good is bought without someone else's labor, or are you opposed to free firefighters, public education, and the like?