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xyzzy <xyzzy.dude@gmail.com> wrote:

Some dued <theodoreward@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh it’s still going on. The administration has a case before the SCOTUS for that, which they have successfully delayed until after the election.

The bulk of the insurance broker enrichment scheme at taxpayer
expense known as obamacare has been effectively neutered to date.

Too bad we won't get to see Pelosi or Obama go to jail for any
of it.

But - we will get to see the sorry old bitch dead. Beaten and
in disgrace.

https://www.briansussman.com/politics/how-obamacare-became-law/

Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. If you recall,
Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives was unable to pass their version of a healthcare
law. Because all revenue bills have to originate in the House,
the Senate found a bill that met those qualifications: HR3590, a
military housing bill. They essentially stripped the bill of its
original language and turned it into the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA), aka Obamacare.

The Senate at that time had 60 Democrats, just enough to pass
Obamacare. However after the bill passed the Senate, Democrat
Senator Ted Kennedy died. In his place, Massachusetts elected
Republican Scott Brown. That meant that if the House made any
changes to the bill the Senate wouldn’t have the necessary
number of votes to pass the amended bill (because they knew no
Republicans would vote for Obamacare). So Senate Leader Harry
Reid cut a deal with Pelosi: the House would pass the Senate
bill without any changes if the Senate agreed to pass a separate
bill by the House that made changes to the Senate version of
Obamacare. This second bill was called the Reconciliation Act
of 2010. So the House passed PPACA, the Senate bill, as well as
their Reconciliation Act. At this point PPACA was ready for the
President to sign, but the Senate still needed to pass the
Reconciliation Act from the House.

Confused?

We all were.

And it got worse.

Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the
Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced
Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in order to pass the Act Senate
Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared that they
could use the “Reconciliation Rule (this is a different
“reconciliation” than the House bill). This rule was only
supposed to be used for budget item approvals so that such items
could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual
60. Reconciliation was never intended to be used for
legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare. But that didn’t stop
them.

So both of the “Acts” were able to pass both houses of Congress
and sent to President Obama for his signature without a single
Republican vote in favor of the legislation. The American
system of governance was shafted. To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee
Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process:
“We’re making up the rules as we go along.”
 

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