re: Bernie Sanders on NPR this morning (ACA repeal)

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Only to three liberal Republican ones (like Olympia Snowe) on the Finance Committee. Not for the entire Senate. Please prove otherwise.

So all of this gnashing of teeth is over 7 million people out of 325 million losing their taxpayer-provided health insurance to treat their "diabeetus"?

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Republicans chose to be obstructionist as a matter of tactics.

They zeroed in on every single Republican that was daring to make good faith efforts with crafting the legislation, despite that, the bill managed to go through the second longest consecutive session on a piece of legislation in history. 100 hours of debate, 100 hours of committee meetings, over 100 Republican amendments over a 12 month process. CBO scored bills before every vote and made publicly available the bill and the score at least a week prior.

Just because the right wing spin machine clings to a fantasy of the legislative process for this bill doesn't mean it is reality.