The first thing out of the Republicans' side is Lamar Alexander and the rarity of reconciliation--how we just don't use that for healthcare. Sen. Alexander, you know what the "R" in COBRA stands for, right? You know that SCHIP passed through reconciliation in 1997, right? [Update from Ezra: "This morning, Lamar Alexander said that reconciliation has never been used for anything as big as health-care reform. Health-care reform has a 10-year cost of about $950 billion. The Bush tax cuts, which passed through reconciliation, had a 10-year cost of about $1.8 trillion. Lamar Alexander voted for them."]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) showed some spine for once and fired back with reality. Boom.
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