Health Care Reform: Undoing Obama's Health Law Could Have Messy Ripple Effects

4) And again, your insistence that single payer could have been passed via reconciliation completely and fundamentally misses the point of reconciliation. Single payer would have meant the institution of a brand new program, not just an emendation of Medicare, and no reputable source thinks that's the proper function of reconciliation.

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Even if that were true (it isn't), that reconciliation can't be used for the institution of a new program (S-CHIP was created through reconciliation, as was COBRA, along with the law stating that hospitals who take Medicare and Medicaid money have to see all patients who walk into their emergency room was also passed in reconciliation, as was the 1983 tax increase that reversed many of the Kemp-Roth tax cuts), Medicare, a single payer program, isn't "a new program".  So all that would be necessary is eliminating any age requirement.  

And the only people who think that it wouldn't be a "proper function of reconciliation" are those who are against getting affordable, quality medical treatment for everyone, i.e., people who stand to gain financially from Big Medical's foot on the 99%'s collective necks.
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