Wake up spinmeister, some may not know you lie, but some of us do and can back it up! ...Most of the 161 amendments were technical, rather than substantive, changes...and those that were substantive were like Oklahoma's Tom Coburn requiring members of Congress, and their staff to enroll in the government-run health insurance program....Which was CHANGED by the Manchurian muslim AFTER the bill was passed as were many others, or Had NOTHING to do with the Obumacare bill such as an amendment sponsored by Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, that would "establish an auto advisory council to make recommendations to the Secretary of the Treasury regarding how best to represent the taxpayers of the United States as the majority owner of General Motors."
You sir, are an ass, and a dishonest ass, at that!
link?
When was the last time you used one?
Use a search engine, like I did, ass hole! But try searching the
Washington Examiner, as I do.... I'll never make it easy for you scumbags!
Well, if the highly partisan Examiner is allowed then you cannot reject any other source as partisan.
Fact Check: How the health care law was made | America's Health Care
Fact Check: How the health care law was made
November 10 2010
In the days since last Tuesday's election, there has been no shortage of media attention on the health care bill.
Unfortunately, many of the same interests that spread myths about "death panels" are using their spotlight to rewrite the history of the legislation. On a
recent cable news show,
the hosts repeatedly suggested that the Republican Party was shut out of negotiations over the Affordable Care Act.
Far from it.
Despite the partisan vote on the bill, the fact is that the Affordable Care Act was a product of exhaustive bipartisan compromise. Indeed, some of the most important provisions in the bill were actually GOP ideas:
- A high-risk pool for uninsured people with preexisting conditions
- Allowing insurance companies to sell coverage across state lines
- Pools where the self-employed and small businesses could buy insurance
In February, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein
described in detail how all four health care planks on the GOP's
Solutions for America website were incorporated into the bill. In fact, even the individual mandate itself has a
strong history of support within the Republican Party, including from the
Heritage Foundation,
Mitt Romney and
Chuck Grassley.
Media Matters reported the following numbers about Republican involvement in the Affordable Care Act over the past 18 months:
According to a HELP Committee document about bipartisan aspects of the health reform bill the committee passed July 15, 2009, its final bill
included "161 Republican amendments," including "several amendments from Senators [Mike] Enzi [R-WY], [Tom] Coburn [R-OK], [Pat] Roberts [R-KS] and others [that] make certain that nothing in the legislation will allow for rationing of care," and reflected the efforts of "six bipartisan working groups" that "met a combined 72 times" in 2009 as well as "30 bipartisan hearings on health care reform" since 2007, half of which were held in 2009 [HELP Committee document,
7/09]. And according to the Senate Finance Committee's September 22, 2009,
document detailing the amendments to the Chairman's Mark considered, at least 13 amendments sponsored by one or more Republican senators were included in the bill.