The groundswell of support for health care “Plan B” continues. The liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities makes the case that Democrats would be well within their rights–and within the bounds of tradition–to use the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to tweak the Senate health care bill…and that the tweaks being considered will strengthen the bill.
CBPP notes that, in the past, the reconciliation process has been used to make policy, including welfare reform, the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, and health care programs like CHIP, Medicare Advantage, and COBRA (which stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act).
