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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
The reason is because the DEMOCRATS were trying to get GOP support during the legislative process. More GOP votes would insure passage of the bill. That is why the Democrats made concessions that they thought the GOP would agree with. It turns out that even with these concessions, no GOP legislator voted in favor of it.
If they could to do it all over again, the Democrats should not even try to make those concessions since they did not need any GOP votes in the first place.
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No they did not. If you look back at that time...the Republicans were raising hell because they were COMPLETELY locked out of the process.
Reid and Pelosi made ZERO concessions. You are citing misinformation based on speculation. What really happened was well documented nightly on the news and in every newspaper in the U.S.
Remember...the President also promised that the entire process would be broadcast live on CSPAN. Instead it went straight behind closed doors where DEMOCRATS cut all the deals with Pharma, Insurance, and Hospital Corp.'s
Rewriting history doesn't work. What happened is documented. And the results are here right now.