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Barack Obama celebrates 15 year anniversary of ACA by joining BlueSky (lemmy.world)
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[-] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

I recall they had to drop the public option after Ted Kennedy died and they no longer had a supermajority in the Senate. To get around a Republican filibuster, they had to rely on a less than ideal version of the bill through the reconciliation process

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