Can a strong HCR pass through reconciliation?

[AzNick]

First of all, can HCR pass at all through reconciliation and if yes, can't we then ask for a strong reform bill?

[stray cat]

1. Not unless you can get the dems to vote yes - too many dems are against it

[AzNick]

3. Don't you need just 50 votes? and the VP adds his own?

I don't understand why they have to be in unison.

[stray cat]

4. How many dems in the senate are for a strong public option?

something lukewarm maybe - but I didn't think we had the numbers for a strong public option? :cry:

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. It could if there were leadership that was worth a shit.

Sadly, we're stuck with Spineless Reid and Jellyfish Pelosi. :evilfrown:

[Cleita]

5. I don't believe so.

They threw away the baby with the bath water when they let Max Baucus's Finance Committee frame the issue, instead of the H.E.L.P. Committee and then banned any voices from the debate that weren't from the corporate health care industry only to let them whisper a bit when protested. It was poisoned from the beginning.

[customerserviceguy]

6. I don't think it's going to happen

Last weekend's vote was a sham to get enough House members on board to toss it over to the Senate, so they can drop the hot potato.