That's Dingy Harry's Ace up his sleeve and that's what I'm afraid of. He's going to take out Upton's language and use Landrieu's bill.
Yeah, the Progressives are loudly bitching about Upton's bill - just like Bill Clinton loudly bitched about Ken Starr but was giving hi-fives to his cronies in private when he learned he was going to be the special prosecutor.
That bill is so much worse for the Democrats (and everybody). Legally forcing insurance companies and state exchanges to do something will be litigated until 2016 and beyond. You have a 3 way war with the administration, state insurance commissioners and state exchanges at war. It would virtually guarantee that registration at the exchanges would be mostly pre-existing conditions, pre-retirees and the working poor. Obama would have to veto it if the house would even bring it up let alone pass it.