So, the House passes the Senate bill, and they’ve gotten past that pesky Constitution thing about revenue bills originating in the House?
Only if the Republicans do not challenge it.
What Reid has (apparently) done is to use the amendment process to entirely recast an existing - but unrelated - revenue bill with a "new" health care bill, under the original bill number, which originated in the House. Now, the only thing left that might be said to have "originated" in the House is the bill number itself. Democrats will naturally argue that the Constitutional requirement has been met because it is silent on the extent to which a bill might be changed or amended prior to reconciliation and because the language of the (new) Senate bill is the same that the House will now be asked to vote on, no "reconciliation" is required. It is dirty, underhanded - and typical. Of Banana Republics, that is.