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Sat Jan-23-10 08:36 PM
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| 44. He was talking about not passing the Senate Bill and instead breaking the existing bill into pieces. |
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That wont work.
The Senate Bill is comprehensive with the insurance reforms we need but can't do through Reconcilliation.
They can pass the Senate Bill and then do a patch through Reconcilliation which only needs 50 votes and corrects some of the problems the House had with the Senate Bill. It would modify the Excise Tax which the House and Unions hated. It would increase subsidies to families to make insurance more affordable. I'm not sure what else. I know they wanted a National exchange instead of the State exchanges in the Senate Bill. Hopefully, they can do that through Reconcilliation too but I'm not sure.
This actually doesn't count as breaking it into pieces. This is the best way to go.
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