Much is known about how Democrats hope to finish off health care reform. Later this week, President Obama will submit yet more proposed changes to the Senate’s health care bill. Those changes–with some tweaks–will almost certainly be moved through the majority-vote budget reconciliation process in both chambers. And that will likely happen after the House passes the Senate’s more comprehensive package. But there are at least two significant unknowns–and truly the fate of health care reform depends on the answer to those questions: Can the House muster the votes for a major health care bill again? And how much, substantively, can the Senate pass through reconciliation.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=129982