Health care reform and the Democrats

Has anyone been reading about the latest tactic of the Democrats for health care reform? The idea is that they will simply deem the bill passed by a 51-vote majority in the senate and then vote on all of the provisions separately. The Republicans are calling them a number of nasty names.

The most telling point, in my opinion, is the comment I read that, if the Democrats do this and actually pass some form of health care reform, we will spend the rest of the year dealing with attempts to get it overturned. My opinion is that we need to get something passed completely aboveboard. This has taken so much time and energy already. We can spend a little more time now to save time later.

Of course, this may be a moot point. As I've noted in earlier posts, planning for the future instead of looking at the (very) short-term gains seems to go against human nature.