Health Care End Game - Update

With full awareness of the immodesty of saying, "I told you so", I couldn't help but look back with much satisfaction on a post I made last August, titled "Health Care End Game" and subtitled, "Spoiler alert: How it will end." Now the end has come. That old post was remarkably prescient. Close vote. No GOP support. Budget reconciliation. The one prediction that failed was the expectation that if reconciliation were used (it was), then some form of the public option would be in the final bill (it wasn't). Still, I give my prognostication a solid B+.