[lbo-talk] Howard Dean: 'Kill The Senate Bill'

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Dec 16 15:09:26 PST 2009


On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:28:12 -0500 (EST) Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> [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?

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