Harry Reid Claims Reconciliation Passage Of Health Care In 60 Days

2:18 pm EST February 21st, 2010 | News | 6 Comments

harry reidI don’t know why they have to take so long to do this. We’ve been at this issue – in this legislative session – for almost a year now, not to mention the decades before going back and forth on this. Just make it happen, for Christ’s sake.

‘I’ve had many conversations this week with the president, his chief of staff, and Speaker Pelosi,’ Reid said during an appearance Friday evening on ‘Face to Face with Jon Ralston’ in Nevada. ‘And we’re really trying to move forward on this.’

The majority leader said that while Democrats have a number of options, they would likely use the budget reconciliation process to pass a series of fixes to the first healthcare bill passed by the Senate in November. These changes are needed to secure votes for passage of that original Senate bill in the House.

‘We’ll do a relatively small bill to take care of what we’ve already done,’ Reid said, affirming that Democrats would use the reconciliation process. ‘We’re going to have that done in the next 60 days.’

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6 Responses to “Harry Reid Claims Reconciliation Passage Of Health Care In 60 Days”

  1. AAlex says:
    February 21, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    Haven’t you figured it out, yet? This ongoing stall tactic is meant to kill off any and all momentum for anything other than another corporate welfare bill. If Obama and the Dems (read that—non-progressive Dems) really wanted health care reform (meaningful, non-corporate-give-away) they would have done it a year ago. They were just caught off guard by the fact that the people wanted real (read public) options. All this stalling—this latest 60 day cooling off period included—is designed to slow down the desire for real reform. Then, when they pass the best corporate deal imagined, the people will say, “Eh…it is better than nuthin’”

  2. Matthew Hubbard says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    I’m a little more on the “hopey, changey” side of the spectrum than AAlex. They can pass a small bill with the public option as its centerpiece and get a solid majority of the American people behind it. Meanwhile, the Republicans and the Tea Party crowd can argue whether gays should just be denied the right to work or just chemically castrated, a major vote winning strategy.

    [/ snark]

  3. jr says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Snails laugh at Harry

  4. Politicartoons says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    I’m trying to be optimistic here, but doesn’t Reid understand the concept of Momentum? Just when it seems to come back, he manages to diminish it yet again.

  5. Jaim says:
    February 21, 2010 at 7:18 pm

    I’m of mixed feelings about all of this. Willing to be optimistic that reconciliation might give us an even better bill than Liebercare, but also afraid to be played for a sucker yet again.

  6. Jamey says:
    February 22, 2010 at 8:51 am

    Not reconciliation, “Majority Rule.”

    Say it with me, brothers.