In remarks this afternoon rolling out his final (?) health-care proposal, President Obama embraced the use of reconciliation to finish the Democrats’ health-care bill, though he never actually said the word.

Obama said that the Democratic bill has already passed with a majority in the House and a “super-majority” in the Senate, and said a revised bill “deserves the same kind of up or down vote” used for welfare reform, CHIP, and the Bush-era tax cuts — all of which were passed via the reconciliation maneuver.

Obama called for Congressional leaders to schedule the vote on a revised proposal in the next few weeks, and said he was unconcerned with the political and electoral consequences of pushing through the unpopular bill.

“I will leave it to others to sift through the politics,” Obama said. “That’s not what this is about. That’s not why we’re here.”

The president also roundly rejected the idea of starting over on health-care reform, saying “I don’t see how another year of negotiations would help.”

UPDATE: I write about how ugly a reconciliation battle could get in the Senate — and point out the relevant differences between this and previous reconciliation efforts — here.