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What compromise? The ACA passed the House [1] and Senate [2] without a single Republican vote.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

> The House voted 219 to 212 to approve the measure, with every Republican voting no.

[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...

> Vice President Biden presided over the 60 to 39 party-line vote, ...

It was watered down to make it a "budget bill" under the Senate rules so it could withstand filibuster. (In doing this, the ACA had to be stripped of almost all its cost-containment features.)

It's incredible to witness, real-time, people such as who you're replying to trying to change the facts of history mere years after the thing occurred.

This is in line with my original point - since when did facts become so malleable?

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