This is how you do it.

[ncteechur]

Simply two bills.

Bill one: does away with pre-existing conditions, lifetime limits, etc etc Effective immediately. No wait. No public option, no exchanges. You vilify anyone who doesn't want to do it as asskissing the insurance companies. Play hardball. You will need 60 votes to pass it. No reconciliation.


Bill two: medicare for all. You can use reconciliation because it is an expansion of the federal budget.


Maybe that is what the WH is thinking.

[liberalpragmatist]

1. You'd have to do it in two separate Congresses

There's no way that Lieberman and Nelson, etc., are going to let a regular bill pass if a reconciliation-ready, Medicare-for-all bill is readied up next.

[ncteechur]

3. could be because you wouldn't need bill 1 if bill 2 passed

[DJ13]

2. Maybe that is what the WH is thinking.

If only it was true, but I doubt it.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. EXCELLENT! I hope to God that's what they do nt

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[LooseWilly]

8. "sleight of hand", just FYI...

[mkultra]

9. Exactly!! its OBAMA slight of hand! i agree with you completly

[LooseWilly]

10. Dude, I was just letting you know that you were using the wrong word.

So you could fake hysteria without seeming quite so stupid. If you want to stubbornly insist on using the wrong word... knock yourself out.

Moron.

[mkultra]

11. i agree.

[discopants]

6. ta-da!

This is a brilliant idea!


... now, how does this brilliant idea get shared beyond a thread on DU?

[tritsofme]

7. Lieberman won't even support a procedural motion on the current bill.

Why in the world would he play the role of patsy in your scenario? Not to mention many of other members of the caucus that would not support such legislation.

I doubt it could even pass the House.

You're not being realistic.

[WeDidIt]

12. I do not believe that will ever happen

Obama will sign the welfare for insurance comapnies bill and that will be that.