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Right, they just added dozens of amendments, including the one I told you about wherein you couldn't be arrested for failing to pay the tax penalty. A detail you thought was highly significant, and it turns out you had it wrong.
Additionally, during the bill's development Republicans brought up that "if Obamacare is so good why doesn't Congress have to use it?" silliness. Democrats responded "hey, you're right" and required Congress to purchase insurance through the exchange.
And somehow that never stopped right-wingers from, to this day, claiming that Congress is exempt from the ACA when they are explicitly the opposite.
Doesn't it make you wonder how many other details you have wrong? You don't need to answer here, but a self-assessment question: how long did you believe "death panels" were a thing?
Why did the democrats remove the death panels if they didn't exist?
No, this disaster is entirely at the feet of the Democrats. Not a single Republican voted for the law, in either house. That little detail, I got correct.