The process of passing the ACA began in February of 2009 and ended in March of 2010. That's more than a year. 1/
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A bipartisan 'Gang of Six' was formed - 3 Ds / 3Rs - to negotiate a bill. 2/
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The Sen Health Cmte spent 60 hours over 13 days marking up that bill. The final version included 161 amendments authored by Republicans.
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The full Senate debated the bill for 25 straight days. There were public hearings. There was a public debate. 4/
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POTUS debated it on live television with Republican members of the House. 5/
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I was there for all of this. I worked in healthcare public affairs. The ACA tackles the access leg of the healthcare problem. 6/
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It does not do enough on cost or quality, which is what Congress should be turning its attention to, rather than stripping access 7/7
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There were hearings on the ACA: http://www.snopes.com/aca-versus-ahca/ … the ACHA is the secretive one. I understand the one letter difference is confusing.
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Maybe you should read the ACA or the ACHA? You probably have lots of free time since you've never had a town hall.
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Fix the ACA. the ACA, medicare, and medicaid save people's lives. Or aren't you pro-life anymore?
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406 days Till Election day Jason
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How about you & GOP just stay away from Health Care? You suck at it..https://www.salon.com/2017/03/22/how-republicans-quietly-sabotaged-obamacare-long-before-trump-came-into-office_partner/ …
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Thanks for sharing the article
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OBAMACARE ISN'T THE PROBLEM. SKYROCKETING COST OF HEALTH CARE IS THE PROBLEM. MN's own
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The bill you voted for was terrible, and its bastards in the senate are too, McCain was right, needs a bipartisan effort to fix long term.
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Previous tweet asks for civil discourse, and this one presents extremely uncivil discourse along with falsehoods, can't have it both ways
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Another canned talking points statement written by Koch Bros and Ryan. Do you even bother to learn the facts before you parrot these lies?
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You lie. The ACA was debated on the Senate Floor for 8 months, 53 finance Cmte meetings, 44 public hearings & 160 GOP amendments
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I apologize in advance if asking you to work with democrats is governing from the far, far left
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How about you read our governor's letter to Secretary Price?http://m.startribune.com/gov-mark-dayton-says-nightmarish-federal-reinsurance-process-could-cut-low-income-healthcare/445849893/?section=%2F …
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