UPDATED-Healthcare in the House: A Twisted Shell Game
Phillipa Klein: “Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation…It’s not the actual reconciliation bill with all the changes you’ve been reading about. Instead…this is just the “shell” bill…Once the bill gets approved (likely Monday), Democrats will send this phantom bill over to the Rules Committee, where it will be stripped, and then they’ll insert in all of the actual changes that they’ve negotiated.”
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UPDATE: The text of the bill is here. I hear on Twitter that it provides for a public option, but I haven’t read the legislation. So I don’t know.
