[opentalk]

Check out this article, slimey politics from Reid

The House Vote on the Senate Healthcare Bill Is the Final Vote;

Health care bill was originally an IRS tax code bill

Reid HAD to do this. Why? Because all legislation that raises taxes MUST originate in the House of Representatives and H.R. 3590 satisfies that requirement.

I will repeat that, Harry Reid switched the language in H.R. 3590 and replaced it with the Senate's version of the health care system takeover in order to satisfy the requirement for all legislation raising taxes to originate in the House. The bill summary outlines the evolution of this bill:

OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.

OFFICIAL TITLE AS AMENDED BY SENATE:
An act entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

[justiceseeker93]

Thanks for answering my question (sort of), opentalk. I get the drift: the original “revenue” bill which originated in the House bore no resemblance whatsoever to what the Senate later did by “amendment.” In other words, there was a ruse pulled to get around the Constitutional mandate that all revenue bills must originate in the House.