>
> [Interesting footnote: There was no way to pass a public option through
> the 51-vote reconciliation process, because you can't use it to create a
> new program, only to expand an existing one. But once the public option
> was killed and replaced with a medicare buy-in, I think that suddenly
> makes the reconciliation process a theoretical possibility, because
> that would be an expansion of an existing program: medicare.]
The same would hold for expanding Medicare to everybody, right?
So if they haven't done that... it means... they don't want to do that.
Right?
--
Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com