OK, we have alot of blathering and posturing about how badly/cleverly the Obama Administration is handling the healthcare legislative process... But I have a hunch that very few kossacks really understand the process by which healthcare bills will become law... So this is a request for a wiki of sorts, explaining how the various committees and the two legislative bodies come together in conference, and how leverage is wielded in forming and negotiating within that conference. One would imagine that Rahm has a very clear sense of this, but you would think that kossacks would be smarter about it. And yet I have not seen any gaming of that process on this site. So can anyone help? Please recommend if you want to promote folks to answer in comments... I will post all interesting comments in Updates to this diary.