Boo Radley
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Some how I got a feeling that you do, you're just ignoring it. Yes in previous years some of what is in Obamacare was suggested by Repbulicans. But those ideas were shot down, not just by other Senators and such but also by the People who disapproved of those ideas...and still do. When those ideas were brought up again, by the Democrats, the Republicans this time sided with the People because the People opposed those ideas just as they did when Republicans suggested them years before. IE The Republicans sided with the majority of the People. The Democrats went against the majority of the People.
So your point that they were at one time Republican ideas holds no water anymore because the Republicans dropped those ideas when they first got shot down. The Democrats picked them up again for Obamacare and despite what the majority of the People said and wanted voted for those ideas...making them Democrat ideas. Not Republican, because again, Republicans dropped the idea.
Not sure that is entirely true considering Romneycare. But it doesn't really matter. The original ideas put in the table were better, but derailed by republicans and the woefully misinformed tea party. What came next largely came from republican ideas. My hat is he only point.