My last hope as per health care reform this year

[Botany]

Obama & Reid do what they need to do to pass any bill out of the senate
afterwords a public option and or medicare "buy in" is put in the bill along
w/ a drug re-importation wording is put in the bill during the House / Senate
mark up session and they pass it w/ 50 + 1 (Biden) votes

[damntexdem]

1. If only. And the argument against doing reconciliation now is the delay.

But it would be a different question following conference committee.

[bain_sidhe]

2. You are misunderstanding the conference process

the bill that comes out of the conference between the house and the senate will also need to pass the 60-vote cloture threshold. The "reconciliation" bill that only needs 50+1 that people talk about is a different process, and requires an entirely different bill.