Thanks for the info.
As far as the direct proposition of passing health care under the reconciliation process, the only thing that can be done is to present a credible threat of hell to pay. The GOP can bring the Senate to a standstill on most anything - but there's no way to stop a reconciliation clock when 51 Senators are determined to run with it. Same was true of the GOP's planned undoing of the abuse of cloture in the context of judicial nominations (the nuclear option). The DEMs couldn't have stopped that, but enough Senators (GOP and DEM alike) scuttled the plan out of fear of retribution.