Need help - who wrote the Affordable Health Care Act?

[ChazII]

I only found one link that named names at that link led to Freeperville, hence, I did not check it out. Whatever I am doing research wise I am not searching correctly. What you see in the title is what I am using as my search question. I have used Yahoo not Google.

[dkf]

1. Isn't it a mish mash?

But the main guys were the ones behind Romneycare I believe.

Authors of Affordable Care law astounded by its trials

A day after the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care law by one vote, Jonathan Gruber and John McDonough — perhaps the two nonpoliticians from Massachusetts most responsible for transforming the state’s health reforms into national legislation — expressed incredulity at how close the law came to being overturned.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/06/30/architects-health-reform-dismayed-how-close-law-came-being-overturned/M2bdEdRl6zaC5EaiAmSflO/story.html

[notadmblnd]

2. Republicans

It is modeled after the State of Massachussetts health plan that Mitt Romney implemented when he was governor of the state.

[TheDebbieDee]

28. Don't you mean the republicants?

The republicants pooh-poohed all the best ideas presented for the ACA. They nixed the public option, single-payer and countless other ideas that would have made the ACA easier.....

[dgibby]

3. Google Max Baucas and ACA.

His comittee was responsible for the hearings. In truth, it's a rework of the proposal put forth by the Heritage Foundation with heavy input from the health insurance industry.

[bunnies]

6. This. And I seem to remember Baucas crediting Liz Fowler for much of it. nt

[LiberalLoner]

26. Max Baucus.

[LaydeeBug]

4. It was written by the Heritage Foundation in the 1990's and adapted by Mitt Romney

when he was governor in Mass. It's been tweaked each time, but the individual mandate part was absolutely the brain child of the Heritage Foundation (a right wing group)

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/letters/2012/07/02/aca-reflects-heritage-foundation-model/

[bunnies]

8. And Id bet Heritage based theirs on Nixons plan.

Just a hunch.

[LaydeeBug]

12. I'd bet with you. nt

[ChazII]

18. LaydeeBug, thank you

As I read your link it brought back memories of past campaign years. Thank for this link and I have bookmarked it.

[LaydeeBug]

20. You are so much welcome! I know what it's like to be in the thick of it

and you just. need. that. link.

LOL.

Anytime.

[Sunlei]

5. not sure but imo a lot of the ideas came from work on healthcare the clintons &

other Americans concerned about healthcare for us all did. plus many other countries have good healthcare for all their citizens. Some probably came from that work.

Not sure because Romney got rid of ALL his state computer records but his 'romneycare' policy probably had parts taken from Clinton work too.

Or maybe insurance lobbyists did some of the work so they could be close to some of the profits.



Have you checked the White House website? If you go back to the first days of 'Obama care' I bet records are there. just search "Affordable Health Care Act" and you can see and read the act.

[ChazII]

19. Suniel, I think I must be having

a bad brain day. I say that because of 2 concussions I had last year. I did not even think of visiting the White House website. I feel like such a . Thank you for your help.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Good luck finding the definitive answer to that...

You likely won't be hearing the real story about all the lobbyists involved.

BTW here's the first precursor to the PPACA that was introduced into Congress under Obama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Affordable_Health_Choices_Act_of_2009

[Cleita]

9. Bob Dole originally proposed the plan back in the last century. The Heritage Foundation

adopted it as a Republican plan for health care being it's all insurance company friendly. Don't remember the exact dates. Mitt Romney got it adopted in Massachusetts when he was governor. Hillarycare was also a version of it.

This begs the question as to the motives of the Republicans hating it now that our New Democratic President got it passed.

[Bandit]

11. The main difference between what Hillary came up with and the Republican's counter

proposal was Hillary want Business to be the one's responsible for providing Health Care Insurance and Republicans wanted the onus to be on the individual..hence individual mandate. Now that is what they say they are so opposed to. It always amazes me how the Hypocrisy never gets presented to their faces and asked for explanations...

[ChazII]

15. Exactly! and thank you n/t

[Rex]

22. The M$M works for the same paymasters; otherwise

in a real country with a strong independent media that question would have been asked from the beginning.

"Why don't Republicans support a healthcare law that was created by the Heritage Foundation and used in Mass. by Mittens...who last time I checked ran for POTUS as a republican?"

Yeah can't let the masses in on the rank lie, that would expose everything.

[ChazII]

25. Yes, the media should be asking

this question as you wrote it. Again, thank you, Rex.

[Rex]

29. Thank you for making this thread.

We should always be asking why the M$M won't cover topics that are important to the people of the country! Just because some questions are impalpable, does not make them any less truthful.

[ChazII]

17. Agree with your comments. And thank you. nt

[DURHAM D]

10. It was written by the Heritage Foundation

at the request of Senator Dole in response to Hillary & Bill Clinton's plan.

[ChazII]

16. Thank you.

Another link I visited also stated that information. I appreciate your help.

[duffyduff]

13. Health insurance industry lobbyists. n/t

[jsr]

14. Here's a clue:

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/318577-architects-of-obamacare-reap-windfall-as-washington-lobbyists

ObamaCare's architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists
By Megan R. Wilson - 08/25/13 12:06 PM ET

ObamaCare has become big business for an elite network of Washington lobbyists and consultants who helped shape the law from the inside.

More than 30 former administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the healthcare law have set up shop on K Street since 2010.

Major lobbying firms such as Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Alston & Bird, BGR Group and Akin Gump can all boast an Affordable Care Act insider on their lobbying roster — putting them in a prime position to land coveted clients.

“When [Vice President] Biden leaned over [during the signing of the healthcare law] and said to [President] Obama, ‘This is a big f'n deal,’ ” said Ivan Adler, a headhunter at the McCormick Group, “he was right.”

[ChazII]

21. Thank you to everyone who answered

I have bookmarked your information in a folder I have for the ACA.

[solarhydrocan]

23. Here's what Wiki says

The health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an idea hatched in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler at Heritage in a publication titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans".[20] This was also the model for Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts. [21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence


How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate
Avik Roy 10/20/2011

Heritage did put forward the idea of an individual mandate, though it predated HillaryCare by several years. We know this because we were there: In 1988-90, we were employed at Heritage as a public relations associate (a junior writer and editor), and we wrote at least one press release for a publication touting Heritage’s plan for comprehensive legislation to provide universal “quality, affordable health care.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/

The paper that started it all

Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans
October 1, 1989
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans

[ChazII]

24. Wow is about all I can say but

not wow in a good way. Thank you. All of this information is making my head spin.

[truedelphi]

31. A friend of mine keeps saying:

How does Congress and Obama preside over a real economic recovery when consumer purchasing power is redirected to insurance company profits?

[truedelphi]

27. Countless meetings between Rahm Emanuel and various Execs of Big Health Insurers

Then in the end, he and Liz Fowler (who had been "in the industry" prior to summer of 2009), those two finished up the legalese and passed it off to someone over at the House of representatives.

Rahm Emanuel will never have to worry about campaign contribution as long as he lives.

Liz Fowler was given a top spot at one of the Biggest Insurers in order to properly thank her for her efforts.

[B Calm]

30. Basically the Republicans did, then they voted against it.

[ChazII]

32. Once again thanks

other friends in my real world have asked this same question and I send them here to DU. Hopefully some of them have become new DUers.