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The one thing always left out of the argument about Obamacare is the fact that it was built upon a Republican, market-based foundation. It's core principles were developed by a conservative think tank in the 1990s as a counter to President Clinton's much more liberal health-care plan. Around 10 years later a version of this conservative health-care plan was implemented successfully by Republican Governor Mitt Romney in the state of Massachusetts.
Originally the Democrats did not like Obama proposing this GOP plan because they preferred a single-payer scheme. But Obama believed since the Republicans developed the original health-care plan, they would be more inclined to support Obamacare. But then Republican leaders had decided they were going to unilaterally opposed Obama in just about anything he did. They opposed it and then characterized it as a typical liberal entitlement.
Pride before the fall. Now they realized they have backed themselves into a corner. They will never get anything accomplished because they will spend all their time fighting each other instead of looking out for the American citizen. They are party first, country second and they prove this every single day.
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