ADVERTISEMENTThe Affordable Care Act overcame the tea party protests of 2009 and the Democrats losing their filibuster-proo f Senate majority in 2010. Now it has withstood the attempt to replace it with the American Health Care Act, better known as Trumpcare. The message was unmistakable: The health care law had failed because it had made health care harder for people to get, and the GOP had a better way. The health care bill they proposed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act died this week. Recalling Grassley’s 2009 false warning that the Affordable Care Act had “death panels,” the farmer said, “With all due respect, sir, you’re the man that talked about the death panel.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2017 21:45 UTC