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The ACA started as a Heritage Foundation plan, and it was implemented by Mitt Romney when he was MA gov. Republicans also added over 100 amendments to the bill

The ACA started as a Heritage Foundation plan, and it was implemented by Mitt Romney when he was MA gov. Republicans also added over 100 amendments to the bill that were accepted (and which watered it down significantly from what Democrats wanted). Republicans didn’t vote for it largely as a political strategy to not be seen as giving Obama a “win”. But the other poster is right that the ACA was essentially the “free market” conservative version of universal healthcare.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Whatever the history might be, I cannot label legislation that Republicans lockstep voted against and Democrats voted for as Republicans. And that Republicans have tried to dismantle ever since it was passed by Democrats. Even Romney would not pass as a Republican now, and definitely not anything that came out of Massachusetts in mid 2000s. And certainly, if Repubs had control of Congress in 2008, they would have never passed ACA, or any other broad wealth transfer mechanism like it.