Harry Reid took a House bill that had nothing to do with health care, stripped out all of the language, and turned that into the ObamaCare bill.
Really, this has been covered before. Really.
Read what I wrote. We’re saying the same thing only reaching a different conclusion. The original House bill (HR 3962) passed the House but was completely restructured in the Senate and their bill became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590).
HR 3962 (original bill) should have been amended by the Senate then sent back to the House for reconciliation, but never was. The House later adopted HR3590 (the rewritten, separate bill) that originated in the Senate. The House used the reconciliation process in amending HR3590, but it should have been the other way around.
The point is, the democrats used improper procedures in getting this legislation passed. On top of the fact they obscured everything by rushing it through, insisting on it not be read before the vote. The whole thing was a big head fake.