Why are Democrats seriously considering the reconciliation option?

[Torie]

I would like to believe that the Dems are doing it, because they think it is a critical public policy fix. The status quo is not sustainable; everyone who is remotely sane agrees with that. And if I believed what they believe about the right mix of fixes, I would do the exact same thing, and F the politics. Now granted, since they are all on record as supporting this fix, they figure, and probably rightly, that doing something even via an aggressive use of reconciliation, is better than doing nothing as a political matter.

And an added bonus of injecting steroids into the reconciliation process, is that it will help kill off the filibuster, which I have come to believe is quite toxic to our political system, and tends to deflect responsibility for what happens from those in power, or for those in power to be blamed for something that was really due to the supra majority requirement in the Senate, which stopped the Republicans when they held sway from enacting tort reform. That is not good.

[Torie]

If democrats pass healthcare, they run out the private industry and establish a government controlled program.

You know quite literally nothing about this issue, it seems.

Unfortunately, Marokai Blue, you can read but a snippet of this  article, but the rest of the story is that premiums for health insurance in Mass are zoming up at a rapid rate, and now price controls are on the near horizon, as Mass politicians go into a panic mode. I suspect private insurers in Mass will be decamping quite soon. I still believe that the end game of this structure is the end of private insurance. Mass is quite similar to the plan the Dems are pushing is my tentative perception. The road to rationing is a painful one, and I hope it does not end up with single payer, but in the end, that is what we might have.