A Secret Senate Healthcare Bill Seems A Fitting Conclusion
A
Senate healthcare
bill drawn up hastily
in a dark back room
seems a fitting con-
clusion to the roller-coaster
ride we have had in healthcare
over the past eight years. It's a
culmination of everything the
Republicans set in motion
when they first stood in united
opposition to the passage of
the Affordable Care Act, a
piece of legislation based on a
policy proposal from the Herit-
age Foundation - a Conserva-
tive Think Tank.
legislation was repealed. On
some 60 separate occasions
they voted to repeal the Afford-
able Care Act in one form or
another, always knowing that
even a repeal-bill that gained
enough support to make it's
way to President Obama's
desk would never be signed in-
to law. They spent eight long
years of Obama's Presidency
running their campaigns on re-
pealing and replacing
Obamacare, convincing their
base that they could fix the
healthcare problems that the
country faced. There are legiti-
mate problems with the Afford-
able Care Act, the insurance
From that moment on they had
drawn their lines for battle,
they would not rest until the
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