The bill did originate in the House. This has been been hashed and rehashed ad infinitum. Spread the word so that people stop wasting valuable bandwidth with what should be common knowledge by now.
No, it did not. The bill that was in the House had major criminal penalties tied to the mandate. Serious fines and jail time.
This wasn’t a situation where the House sent the bill to the Senate. This was another one of those instances that the Senate Bill went to the House. Backwards. There was not a reconcilation process...everything was behind closed doors.
Not so fast...The Affordable Health Care for America Act (or HR 3962)[1] was a bill that was crafted by the United States House of Representatives in November 2009. At the encouragement of the Obama administration, the 111th Congress devoted much of its time to enacting reform of the United States' health care system. Known as the "House bill," it was the House of Representative's chief legislative proposal during the health reform debate, but the Affordable Health Care for America Act as originally drafted never became law.
On December 24, 2009, the Senate passed an alternative health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590).
Link: Affordable Health Care for America Act
Sorry, but the original House bill did NOT become law. The bill as passed was actually initiated in the Senate. I recall this from the debates here on FR at the time. It was part of our discussion.