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Becuase they offered it and the Republicans had no ideas, the thing that gets me is this was a problem back in 2000 and Bush and the Republicans went on a war rampage and dumped a couple of trillion dollars chasing their tail. Now they want to cry foul.
Let me try to explain what happed during the time the Obamacare was being touted by the Democrats to answer your question about there being no Republican ideas.
The Republicans were not permitted to bring forth any ideas at all in either the House or the Senate by the Democratic Leaders.
With respect to the year 2000 we had a little issue with an organization called Al Queida and a war with a country that we thought had chemical weapons. Given that a Universal Health Care is a Democratic issue, did they make any inquiries with the Republicans on anything that could be agreed to? I doubt they would want to do anything on that issue since it could be used to attack the Republicans and Democrats do not want to "compromise" unless they can get they whole thing latter and any deal with the Republicans before the Democrats could control both Houses in Congress and the Presidency would lessen an urgency that would compel the more moderate Democrats to agree to a more radical bill.