President Barack Obama signs the health-care bill in the East Room of the White House on March 23, 2010. “And those who seek to block any reform at any cost will not prevail this time around” — a reference to the blockades that health-care reform met with during the Clinton administration. The reform bill that would first pass the House was introduced in late October. In broader context, she said:You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. In addition to his ungenerous (though not uncommon) read on Pelosi’s remarks, Spicer’s comment that the health-care bill was “jammed down people’s throats” appears to focus on the process by which it was passed.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 18:00 UTC