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"In the absence of that
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"I believe we will pass healthcare reform this spring," he said.
HEALTHCARE STALLED
Democrats in the Senate and House approved healthcare bills last year that would reshape the $2.5 trillion industry by cutting costs, regulating insurers and expanding coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
But efforts to merge the different measures and send a final version to Obama collapsed in January after Democrats lost their crucial 60th Senate vote in a special election in Massachusetts.
Obama has since offered specific ideas of his own that House and Senate Democrats will seek to fold into a somewhat revised bill that could win House and Senate passage, clearing the way for the president to sign it into law.
Democrats had hoped to avoid using reconciliation, but many now see it as the last viable means for passing an overhaul of healthcare.
Under this method
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Many of those provisions, such as changes to a tax on high-cost insurance plans and additional federal subsidies to make coverage more affordable, were incorporated in a proposal released by Obama last week.
House passage, however, is not assured. The House narrowly approved its healthcare bill last year, but a number of House Democrats have raised concerns about the Senate version
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Pelosi said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid will seek to determine what provisions can carry the Senate on a simple majority vote. They are to meet on Tuesday.
Each provision would be subject to parliamentary challenges to determine whether they meet the requirement that they be budget-related -- meaning changes to areas like federal funding for abortion would not be possible through the process.
House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, made it clear his party wants to move quickly.
"I would think that within the next couple of weeks we're going to have a specific proposal and start counting votes to see whether or not those proposals could pass either the House or the Senate," Hoyer said.
"When we start counting, the votes will be there," Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of the Democratic leadership, told NBC's "Meet the Press."
Earlier on the program, Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said she also believes "we will have the votes" in Congress.
One Republican said he believes Pelosi doesn't yet have enough Democratic votes for passage in the House, but that she may get them.
"I would not count her out because she is very good at muscling votes
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