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Controlling is not the same as filibuster proof majority (as we just saw with the shutdown), which is what it would take to do this.

Why did every Republican vote against it? Because it was terrible legislation that nobody even got to read before voting on it. As Pelosi famously said, "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."

And the reason that you didn't get single payer is because you didn't have support for single payer among Democrats, who did hold a filibuster proof majority.

This idea that the ACA, Obama's signature legislation is some how a conservative push is not based in reality. It's a talking point to give it the appearance of bipartisan legislation, which it is not.

The Heritage Foundation influences were from a 1989 proposal that talked about the an individual mandate and health insurance exchanges. The Heritage Foundation itself has gone as far as to totally disavow any association to the ACA.

https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/dont-...

The ACA disaster is 100% on the party that forced it in along party lines, without even reading it first.



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