"House Democrats Refuse To Revolt Over Obamacare"

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House Democrats Refuse To Revolt Over Obamacare

by Michael McAuliff at Huffinton Post


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/house-democrats-obamacare_n_4284108.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- A Democratic revolt over Obamacare failed to materialize Friday as the House of Representatives passed a measure to let insurance companies offer plans that don't meet the minimum standards of the Affordable Care Act.

The measure, the Keep Your Health Care Act, passed 261 to 157, with 39 Democrats joining Republicans. That's only a handful more Democrats than defected on a number of votes during the recent government shutdown, although it was significantly more than the two who backed the GOP effort to defund Obamacare back in September.

"Most of the pundits were predicting that we were going to lose a huge number of members, and we're not," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the head of the Democratic National Committee, told The Huffington Post. "Democrats believe we should move forward and fully implement the Affordable Care Act."

Still, the abysmal initial rollout of the law has left many Democrats fuming.



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[FarCenter]

1. In the final vote in 2010, 34 House Democrats voted against Obamacare.

The House passed the Senate bill with a 219–212 vote on March 21, 2010, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

So the number of House Democrats defecting hasn't changed much in 3.5 years.

[DJ13]

2. So the number of House Democrats defecating hasn't changed much in 3.5 years.