Wall Street Journal — New Rx for Health Plan: Split Bill
Writers Jonathan Weisman and Naftali Bendavid give the first useful glimpse at the Democratic playbook for unilateral passage of major changes to the health-care system.
Since getting all 60 Democrats in the Senate to support a plan that is anything but happy talk and some handouts seems unlikely, party leaders are doping out the strategy for jamming through a government health-insurance plan using the nuclear option of a 50-vote procedural measure reserved for budget matters.
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