This is what the Dems seem to be planning:
1) Write a reconciliation bill based on the senate healthcare bill. This bill might add something like the Stupak amendment, although I don’t know how they could claim an abortion change would be budget related. It would also have bribes and other changes like taking out the cadillac tax.
2) “Explain” to the Dems in the house that this will “fix” the senate bill, and pass it in the house, and break the legs of reluctant donkeys. I don’t know if it will pass, but don’t underestimate the evil abilities of Pelosi. Dems could push it though with very few R votes.
3) Get 51 votes in the senate. Since the original senate bill is not approved in the house yet, I don’t see how the senate parliamentarian could even rule on objections to changes to the original bill, because theoretically a bill not yet passed in the house could be changed again in the bicameral conference. But Dems want Biden to overrule the senate parliamentarian on all “important” issues. Legislative sleaze in every sense of the word.
4) “Explain,” bribe, muscle, etc. again. Dems push it though with very few R votes. Since the reconciliation bill has passed both houses, and we expect it to contain enough changes to give stubborn donkeys an excuse to vote for it, the original senate bill would pass in the house.
5)Obama first signs the original senate bill, then the reconciliation bill.
If they were able to do all this, it would take a Constitutional amendment just to fix the process.
I think what you've outlined is very likely what will happen, if it happens. I don't think that they'll get any Republican support, whatsoever.
Let’s see how it plays out over the next couple of days.