Reply #19: There was a comment in there about single payer

[TayTay]

Apparently it did not come up much in the discussion and neither did an endorsement or denial of it.

I didn't think single payer was before the Senate Finance Committee this time round. Single payer will come to an actual vote in the House, but that is not on the agenda for any committee or floor vote, as far as I know.

BTW, I felt the urgent need to go read the http://senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Rules_and_Procedure_vrd.htm">Rules of the Senate this week and research more on reconciliation. It is a complicated process. But I think the chances that this health care reforms will go through in a hybrid stand alone/reconciliation process are much higher now than when the Senate recessed in August. There is a http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Congressional_Research_Service">wikileaks site that has the various CRS reports on Senate rules and procedures as well that is probably a small preview, for people like me, of what heaven could be like.