Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is skeptical of a go-it-alone approach to healthcare reform , telling the Washington Examiner he prefers a deal with a “bipartisan pedigree.”

Thune said Republicans weren’t ruling out reconciliation , a budget process that sidesteps the filibuster, to achieve a spate of healthcare proposals preferred by conservatives. But he made clear there are no plans to pursue that path and that reconciliation would be a conversation for next year.

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“I don’t take any options off the table,” Thune said in

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