Perfect regurgitation of the liberal talking points there wolfie

There were MANY other proposals submitted by the Republicans though none of them garnered the necessary votes by the Democrats to actually make it outta committee and to the floor so they could then BE voted on by the full legislative body(s).

Hmmm, let's see, now who was it that was really being "obstructionist" again? Who was it that was being "totally partisan" again? Who was it that was being the party of "no way but ours is good enough to even be voted on" again?

The main differences between the 2 versions were that the Republican sponsored version merely addressed measures to keep insurors from dropping patients when they get ill/injured, addressed tort reform regarding malpractice (in efforts to decrease malpractice costs/reduce insurance costs as well as helping to eliminate the extra tests doctors now have to order in CYA mode), creating insurance pools for small companies/individuals to get better rates, allowing sales of insurance across state lines to encourage competition, and would have made all insurors cover preexisting conditions.

But you see the REALLY biggest difference between the 2 streams of thought between Democrat and Republican sponsored bills was that only the Democrat version included the extra nice parts like allowing the fed govt (and their private contractors) to all your personal banking and health record info as well as allowing the govt to draft any amount they deem necessary against your bank account (good thing the govt never makes mistakes like OVERDRAFTING funds, huh?), using the IRS as their enforcement arm, keeps you from filing a suit against the govt for unfair charges, made special deal for the unions, attached another piece of legislation to the bill that now makes all student loans and places the federal government as the only one allowed to MAKE student loans (except for that ONE bank they agreed to let make loans in a democratic representatives home state so they could bribe his vote) [Just ONE of the MANY such bribes made to get votes for this slimy POS legislation] and fixed it so the pres and various advisory members who helped write the bill were exempt from the system, funds abortions, and here's one of the really great parts:

CREATING 159 NEW FEDERAL AGENCIES AND BUREAUS with somewhere over 100,000 new government employees and also added 17,000 new IRS agents to help with the aforementioned enforcement efforts.

See, changin the regulations on insurance companies and NOT expanding our already HUGE federal govt. by an additional 117,000 new employees (we the taxpayer get to pay for BTW! Wonder how much that adds to the cost of our government just to run this shitty plan) wasn't any part of the Republican plans and because the Democrat plan DID do that they were never going to support it since their constituents told them (just like many Democrats constituents did too) NOT to support this travesty of a government take over

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