Actually, the repugs participated quite a bit in creating the ACA. They added 161 amendments to it. So they probably fucked it all up on purpose, then refused to vote for it.
Fact-checking the GOP on healthcare reform
Sorry, the ACA was Obama's Legacy Socialist 'Wet Dream'.
The week before the Libs rammed this in for a vote in the wee hours of the morning while Americans slept, the American people called in and 'melted down' the Congressional phone lines making it clear they did NOT want it. So the vote was delayed....until the following week.
Transparency? BS!
1. As pointed out, Obama promised the entire ACA process would be on C-Span
-- Only 1 HOUR of the 1st Meeting was televised.
2. Obama promised the American people they would have a minimum of 24hrs to read any legislation before it was passed
-- The bill was brought to the Senate in 2 pieces, not even as a whole bill, because politicians were scrambling to try to read any portion of it. (One of the biggest parts of a politician's job is to read bills and understand what they were voting on - almost NO politician, certainly no Liberal in DC had read the ACA. Even later when they recessed and went back home to face their pissed-off constituents they either showed up still not having read it or some just did not go home t face their constituents during that break.
When the bill was voted on - again, on the wee hours of the morning to ram this minority-supported liberal / Obama-agenda-driven legislation into law against the will of the Majority of Americans who opposed it ("F* Representative govt', right libs?) NO American had been given the opportunity to read any of it, as promised, and NO politician had even read the entire bill.
The biggest 'F* YOU' moment given to the American people was when Nancy 'Empress-wannabe' Pelosi declared the American people do not have the RIGHT to know what is in legislation that will be imposed upon them until AFTER it has been forced into the law. THAT Bi@tch should have been dragged from Congress into the streets and tarred and feathered right then and there for that comment / attitude / crime that was being perpetrated against the American people - unfortunately I think people were in such shock at the betrayal Libs had committed that they missed her comment.
The ACA was a big fat liberal piece of socialist agenda-driven legislation that - despite their promises to the contrary - hid from the American people, LIED to the American people, and then rammed it into law despite the majority of Americans clearly opposing it...right before they Un-Constitutionally exempted themselves from it.