In other words, this is not the "real" bill but rather it is just a placeholder, a "shell" bill that allows the House Budget Committee to begin work on the health care matter today.

The real decisions will be made in coming days by Democrats, with new language and provisions then added by the House Rules Committee.

For example, there is no mention in this new Reconciliation language of the excise tax on high cost, "Cadillac" health care plans.

President Obama made clear he wanted that language in the Senate bill changed, so obviously, those provisions still have to be unveiled and placed in this bill.

There is no mention of the annual fee that the Senate bill had on medical device manufacturers and health insurance providers. That is still part of revenue plans envisioned by Democrats.

Another example, the word "abortion" does not appear in the new reconciliation language, which you can find on the website of the House Budget Committee at http://is.gd/aF99v .

Abortion is obviously a pretty big issue in this debate, when it comes to abortion funding restrictions in both the House and Senate bills, as are some of those revenue provisions mentioned above.

Still, there are some important items in here, like the last 200-plus pages of the bill, which are on student loan reform.

For example, the language of the House passed Student Loan bill was not put into the reconciliation measure in its entirety, as it left out a ban on money going to ACORN.

So, this isn't the "new" bill, as much as it is a procedural placeholder.

I've got to get my game plan in order to be ready to compare language from the House and Senate passed bills and the "real" reconciliation measure.

It may have cost me some sleep, but this was a good dry run for later this week when the real language comes out, and the real evaluations begin.

It was a 440 volt blast in a copper bathtub kind of thing.