Dump The Myth That Obamacare Froze Out Republicans

[DonViejo]

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Dump The Myth That Obamacare Froze Out Republicans

March 21, 2017 12:42 pm

It’s true. The Affordable Care Act was passed without a single Republican vote. Republicans repeatedly cite this fact as Obamacare’s original sin, a fatal flaw that justifies their efforts to dismantle the ACA. But let’s set that record straight. Obamacare was a bipartisan plan. It just didn’t get a bipartisan vote.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the reforms weren’t some radical idea imported from outer space. They were modeled on a conservative blueprint for universal health coverage.

Obamacare had to die for a simple partisan reason: Barack Obama proposed it.

Recall the right-wing hysteria over “death panels” in the summer of idiocy, 2009. The charges centered on the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The board’s task was far more pedestrian — proposing ways to keep the growth of Medicare spending within target levels.

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[LakeArenal]

1. I am loving the repug quote about many health market places having one vendor....

Yes, because governors like Scott Walker would not back the ACA and expand Medicare. Liars, cheats and crooks.
Sabotaging Obama and the ACA since the start. Now they can't.... HA HA....

[TheDebbieDee]

2. I remember the health care battle clearly...

Obama directed the Dems to include the republicans in crafting the legislation to make it bi-partisan. The republicans hemmed and hawed and pooh-poohed single-payer and Medicaid for all and public option. Sometime during this time Sen Kennedy died and everyone realized that there might not be enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill Congress sent up.

Long story short, republicans ran out the clock, Dems panicked, adopted the Heritage Foundation plan in hopes of getting republican votes yo make it bi-partisan and those phuckers STILL would n't vote for it...