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To: Dale Baker who wrote (131499)	2/25/2010 6:58:30 PM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (3) of 541330

Couple health care thoughts - The Democrats have not needed the Republicans to pass health care. The Democratic majorities are large enough. The GW Bush (Rove) strategy was always to alter a bill enough to peel off enough Democratic votes to get it passed. Even though they don't need any Republican votes (pre-Mass), I suspect that two changes, tort reform and allowing insurance to be sold across state lines, would be enough to peel off perhaps 5% of the Republican votes. Perhaps i should know this but I don't know the arguments against those two changes (other than trail lawyers don't like it). I think the strategy of this process has been poorly played by the Democrats. The best way of measuring that is the end result. This should have been doable or winable. As things stand now, the filibuster is not the problem for this bill. The problem may be that Pelosi may no longer have the votes she needs in the House.

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