GaryJohnson
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Is that fair, given that they didn't need Republican support to pass it and it was passed without any Republican support? I'm not say Reps aren't part of the problem, but I Democrats were a problem too and there were Democrats that didn't vote for it either.
We have what we have, because that's what it took to get enough Democrats on board.
It's an interesting topic. The republicans basically all voted nay. So it seems like it's easy to push the whole thing off on the Dems. But, the bill existed for a long time in committee before being voted on. Those committees were bipartisan and exhaustive negotiations and compromises took place to get the bill through. The republicans made 160+ amendments to the ACA in committee. One would think that if they didn't want the bill, they wouldn't have bothered making so many changes to it.