Like I have said before, once the Right sinks their teeth into a lie, they never let go!!!Yes, a lot of amendments were filed, NONE of them were voted on before the bill was voted on and passed by dems only.
In order for 161 GOP amendments to be PASSED, they had to be debated and VOTED on. There was 60 hours of debate over 13 days!!!
that was all prior to the filing of the ACA bill, there was zero discussion on the bill that was actually passed. The final bill was passed with no floor debate and no amendments in either house.
There was lots of discussion on the bill. Originally there was going to be a public option on the healtcare exchanges, Lieberman didn't like that and they needed his vote, so it was taken out. Also lots of GOP were complaining about abortion this abortion that, so Stupak added an amendment to specifically say no abortions will be funded through ACA.
The bill went through full discussion and debate in both houses, and the GOP got more then their fair say in it.