No. of Recommendations: 13
That's no criticism of Obamacare.
It is a criticism of the left not including ALL Americans to afford decent health care.
Passed in the dead of night with NO Republican input that could have improved obamacare to include and helped all Americans, not just a segment who will vote democrat who may think they need to keep democrats in power for/to keep the ACA.Another piece of fiction put forth as fact. The Republicans were involved, though typically in attempts to gut or destroy Obamacare.
"The day after she was one of three Republican senators to vote against her party's proposal to repeal chunks of the Affordable Care Act, Susan Collins of Maine posted a press release that said: "Democrats made a big mistake when they passed the ACA without a single Republican vote. I don't want to see Republicans make the same mistake."
It was a nice nod in the direction of bipartisanship. But it also perpetuates a deceptive narrative, repeated often by Republicans, that they were completely excluded from the process that resulted in Obamacare. While it is true that no Republican voted for the final bill, it is blatantly untrue that it contains no GOP DNA. In fact, to make such an assertion is like researching your ancestry and going no further back than your mother and father.
Not only were Republican senators deeply involved in the process up until its conclusion, but it's a cinch that the ACA might have become law months earlier if the Democrats, hoping for a bipartisan bill, hadn't spent enormous time and effort wooing GOP senators ' only to find themselves gulled by false promises of cooperation. And unlike Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's semi-secret proceedings that involved only a handful of trusted colleagues, Obamacare, until the very end of the process, was open to public scrutiny.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/01/...
