
Originally Posted by
Moveon
To control the congress the Democrats would have needed a majority in the house of representatives and a super majority in the US Senate and that was not the case. The GOP members in the house and the senate had to help vote for the Affordable Health Care Act. Yes Obama lobbied for the bill and so have the Dems for many years. They wanted to make sure that people could afford to have health care and health insurance and be healthy so that they could enjoy life without being sick. I see nothing wrong with that. The only part that I don't like is forcing the young people to buy insurance so that they are insured too. In the past they were not insurance and they got sick or injured and the rest of us had to pay for their treatment as the hospitals got stuck with the costs which they passed onto everyone else. Now that everyone has health insurance and there is completion for the insured the cost are not going up as fast as before. In some cases the cost have declined for many. That's a good thing. But Obama never controlled the Congress ever.