[ari-freedom]

This is actually the “shell” bill that Paul Ryan warned about:

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/11/ryan-dems-ramming-shell-hc-bil

the Dems would ram through the Budget Committee, who would send it to the Rules Committee. At that point, the Rules Committee will strip out all of the language in the phantom bill, and insert the changes to the Senate bill that Democrats have negotiated. to use as a vehicle to impose national health care.

This is the first step in the convoluted process the Dems are using to force through ObamaCare.

[Royal Wulff]

Right. So no one should waste a lot of time parsing this bill. It will all be gutted and replaced with who knows what.

[ari-freedom]

as Philip Klein explains (http://twitter.com/philipaklein) “They’re using this old bill because under recon rules, they need a bill that was sent to budget cte by Oct. 15, 2009.”

[EternalVigilance]

Good post. Thanks.

[BP2]

This is actually the “shell” bill that Paul Ryan warned about:

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/11/ryan-dems-ramming-shell-hc-bil

It appears so — the Left agrees too.

From:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/14/846267/-Reconciliation-Bill-Released-%283-15%29-%28Update-Explanation%29

Updates:
- Here is the article at The Hill announcing the release of the bill. - Jeffrey Young (health care wonky guy) tweets it... - Ah, I see - the first couple divisions might be reprinting or summarizing the earlier House versions of the bill that came out of various committees. So it might be that the public option isn't actually in the reconciliation bill. - Apparently, word is this bill is released entirely for “procedural purposes”, and is really just the senate HCR bill packaged for the house. No drama here. - Nico Pitney tweets: ‘This is not what you're looking for’. No changes to Senate Bill.

Last Update:

Basically, this is a shell bill - gets sent to the budget committee, who will rubber stamp it, and then it goes to the rules committee, who will strip it out and replace it with the actual reconciliation language. So, something got released here, but you can ignore a lot of the content. The newsworthy part is that it looks like the reconciliation bill will include student loan reforms.

This is how it's been done since forever. A quick search on the House's website confirms this, with hundreds of bills having had markup notices sent out without much fanfare or attention. Perhaps the public just hasn't been this involved in the sausage making of writing legislation and it just now seems like a circus, when, in fact, it has always been a circus.

From:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/86681-house-democrats-release-reconciliation-healthcare-bill

House Democrats hope to complete their work by this weekend, before President Barack Obama begins an overseas trip he delayed for several days to focus on healthcare.

The markup by the Budget Committee is the first step toward bringing the measure to the House floor.