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The Democrats didn’t have the power to pass it by themselves, hence needing to compromise.

It passed with not one vote from Republicans, so there was no need to compromise. Will your fake news post be downvoted? Of course not.

You're just wrong. Just because no republicans voted for it doesn't mean that enormous compromise was necessary to get certain independents and conservative democrats to vote for it, which is exactly what happened. The entire legislative approach to the ACA was to get a 60 vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (and subsequently to prevent the bill from returning to the Senate because of changes made by the House), in a Senate that only had 58 democrats.

Remind us who tanked the public option in the ACA?

Hint: he was Al Gore’s running mate a decade prior. And he was never a republican.

You don't believe Democrats because they compromised with Republicans to get a bill passed?

If you recall, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate, which meant Democrats needed a 60 vote supermajority to get a healthcare bill passed. When they floated the idea of a Medicare-for-all bill, Republicans promised to filibuster in the Senate.

Democrats compromised with Republicans on policy that Republicans wrote themselves, and Republicans still filibustered and not a single one of them voted in favor of it.

If not a single Republican voted for it that means the bill is entirely the responsibility of the Democrats. It is a bill created and passed exclusively by Democrats. The Democrats passed a Republican plan without one Republican vote. The Democrats had a filibuster proof supermajority, and they decided to pass Mitt Romney's healthcare plan. But it's all the Republicans fault. Obama didn't even try for a public option like he had promised during the campaign.

Independent. The 60th vote was an independent who endorsed John McCain in preference to Obama.

How can one person manage to be so consistently incorrect?

> If not a single Republican voted for it that means the bill is entirely the responsibility of the Democrats.

Every Democrat in the Senate voted for it, including two independents.

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