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To: TideGlider who wrote (1021955)	6/20/2017 9:57:18 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583707

"The ACA was done behind closed doors by the Dems" FACT: The ACA had a historic number of hours of debate and amendments during Committee development of the legislations. The House process spanned three committees - Energy and Commerce, Ways and means, and Education and Labor - with dozens of hearings over many months. Specifically, the House held 79 bipartisan hearings and markups on the health reform bill over the period of an entire year. House members spent nearly 100 hours in hearings, heard from 181 witnesses from both sides of the aisle, considered 239 amendments (both Democratic and Republican), and accepted 121 amendments. FACT: The Senate held dozens of public meetings and hearings in both the Finance and HELP Committees and accepted hundreds of Republican amendments. The HELP Committee held 14 bipartisan roundtables, 13 bipartisan hearings, and 20 bipartisan walkthroughs on health reform. The HELP Committee considered nearly 300 amendments and accepted more than 160 Republican amendments. The Finance Committee held 17 roundtables, summits, and hearings on health reform. The Finance Committee also held 13 member meetings and walkthroughs and 38 meetings and negotiations for a total of 53 meetings on health reform. [Senate Finance Committee, 5/3/10] The Finance Committee held a seven-day markup of the bill, the longest Finance Committee markup in 22 years, resulting in a bipartisan 14-to-9 vote to approve the bill. [Senate Finance Committee, 5/3/10] The Finance Committee markup resulted in 41 amendments to revise the bill, including 18 by unanimous consent or without objection. [Senate Finance Committee, 10/13/09] FACT: The financing of the ACA's coverage provisions was well known and debated. When the bill came to the floor, the Senate spent 25 consecutive days in session on health reform, the second longest consecutive session in history. In total, the Senate spent more than 160 hours considering the health reform legislation. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued many reports on the Affordable Care Act's financing, clearly showing that revenue would be raised by the personal responsibility provision, also known at the individual mandate or free-rider penalty, in every case that it described the law's coverage provisions. [CBO, 12/10; The Washington Post, 9/24/14; ASPE, 9/24/14] CBO also wrote extensively about how a properly-functioning insurance market would work as designed under the ACA. The entire purpose of insurance is to balance out the risk of healthy and non-healthy enrollees; anyone who believes that this point was avoided during debate of the ACA was simply not paying attention to advocates of the law as they described it during the many public hearings the law received. dpcc.senate.gov

To: TideGlider who wrote (1021955)	6/20/2017 9:59:42 AM
From: rdkflorida2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583707

Azzhole Trump maggots must have missed the ACA took a year, over 160 amendments and many hearings. All with Repubs involved. Soooo Sad you are a jerk azzhole Trumpturd. cnn.com

To: TideGlider who wrote (1021955)	6/20/2017 12:43:17 PM
From: puborectalis	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1583707

Critics, meanwhile, are accusing Republicans of trying to pass bad legislation, with a New Republic piece stating, "It's clear that the bill—which is shaping up to be as disastrous as the House-passed American Health Care Act—won't be let out of the dungeon until the very last second to avoid scrutiny." Around 20 million Americans may lose their health coverage as a result. The New York Times says that even some Republicans have spoken out against the approach being used; GOP Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee has said, "The process is better if you do it in public, and that people get buy-in along the way and understand what's going on. Obviously, that's not the route that is being taken."