Health reform's virgin birth.  How to fix health policy. March
15 2010 7:08 PM  Health Reform's Virgin Birth  The brouhaha over
the "Slaughter strategy."   House Republicans are up in arms
over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's apparent intention to bypass
the Senate health care reform bill with what they call the
"Slaughter strategy" (named for Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the House rules committee). As Slate's John
Dickerson explained March 10, this would be achieved by a "self-
executing rule" that would allow the House to "deem" the Senate
bill already passed as it considers the clean-up reconciliation
bill containing various corrections demanded by the House and
the Obama White House. A sort of virgin birth, if you will, with
the Senate cast as Mary, the House cast as Joseph, and health
care reform cast as the baby Jesus. "We're seeing a perversion
of the rules to go ahead and ram through this trillion-dollar
health care," House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia 
complained on Fox News. "It pain