The old guard republicans and current republican leadership wanted this HC bill, they did what they could to help it get passed, this includes McConnel and Boehner.
Yes folks, the republicans could have VERY easily stopped this at the start. But the Romney wing wanted it as well as the Bushbots.
And just how could they have done that? With a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a dominant majority in the House, the Democrats could do whatever they wanted -- so long as they stayed united, which they did.
Indeed, the only Republican vote ever cast for Obamacare was Olympia Snowe's, which allowed the bill to go from the committee to the floor. At the time, the rule was that at least one minority vote was necessary to get bills out of committee (a residue of Trent Lott and the "new tone"). But we all know (as did Snowe), that -- without that vote -- Harry Reid would simply change the rules.
So, unless you're referring to the Snowe vote, just how could the Republicans have stopped Obamacare in its tracks -- outside of a mass kidnapping?
What are you talking about?
This bill didn't get ONE Repub vote.