Liability Reform and Reconciliation
The President just pointed out that a Republican Congress and Republican President were not able to enact reasonable medical liability reform. The reason for that is simple: Republicans did not jam through liability reform under a partisan, 51-vote reconciliation process. Contrast that approach with Speaker Pelosi’s chief health care advisor, who publicly bragged about being able to devise a “trick” to pass this unpopular bill through the reconciliation process.
Of course, when he was a Senator, Barack Obama said he opposed jamming provisions through the Senate on a 51-vote margin: “What I worry about would be you essentially still have two chambers – the House and the Senate – but you have simply majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the Founders intended.” Now, not so much…