Given the fact that health care reform was going to happen, why didn't the GOP deal?

I've asked that myself. Had republicans come up with a health care plan first they could now be looking like champs instead of continuing to look like chumps.

The health care reform was so tyrannical and unconstitutional that the GOP doesnt want to get its hands dirty. They can declare themselves free from sin when this thing backfires and health care costs and insurance rises through the roof. But I am sure liberals will find a way to blame Bush or conservatives after the fact

You don't have your facts in order. Newt Gingrich led house passed welfare reform then it sailed through the senate to be eventually signed into law by Bill Clinton. The new reform made working a requirement to welfare, but Obama saw fit to remove it by executive order.

Obama is out of order and he is a crook who should be locked up in some prison.

Finally sticking to principles so that the fiasco couldn't be hung around their necks when the public realized what a rotting corpse it was destined to be from the start.

There are over 200 Republican amendments in Obamacare, plus the whole plan was a Republican idea, yet not one Republican voted for it. That's the opposite of cooperating to help We the People.

What frankly makes this entire story unbelievable is that the individual mandate is an idea Republicans thought of in the 1990s. Republicans supported it all through the 2000s, and Democrats didn’t fully embrace it until 2009. They did so in part because they thought it would help them win Republican support for the health care bill.

- “What we did, I think, is the ultimate conservative plan. We said people have to take responsibility for getting insurance, if they can afford it, or paying their own way. No more free riders.” ~ Mitt Romney, March 7, 2010

- “The real foundation, the most important part of this, is individual rights, responsibilities and expectation of behavior. … We believe that there should be must carry. That is, everybody should either have health insurance or, if you’re an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond. But we would not allow people to be free riders, failing to insure themselves and then showing up in the emergency room with no means of payment.” ~ Newt Gingrich, Siemens Conference Call, May 2009.

- In 1989, Heritage Foundation argued, “Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seatbelts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have liability insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement.”

- Milton Friedman proposed. “… a requirement that every U.S. family unit have a major medical insurance policy” in Wall Street Journal 11/12/99. Last year Romney said he wished he could bring Friedman back from the dead.

- In 11/93, Sen. Chafee (R-RI), along with 19 of his colleagues including Bob Dole, proposed it as his party’s alternative to the Clinton Health Care Bill. It stated that any individual who is a citizen or lawful permanent resident shall be covered under a qualified health plan or program, and that anyone not covered should be subject to a tax. (Sections 1501 and 5000A)

- It was in the Healthy American Act, which a dozen Senate Republicans signed on to, and which Mitt Romney said should be the Republican’s plan for the country.

- In 6/09, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the committee that dealt with health care said it had bi-partisan support. “I believe that there is a bi-partisan consensus to have individual mandates.” ~ Sen. Chuck Grassley

Six months later, in 12/09, every single Republican senator voted to call the mandate unconstitutional. That included many who had supported it in the past, like Sens. Hatch and Bond, and even some who were supporting the individual mandate at that very moment, with their names on the Healthy Americans Act, like Sens. Alexander and Crapo. To repeat that, they voted to say a bill they were currently sponsoring was unconstitutional. The Heritage Foundation turned against it too.

Why the mass flip-flop? President Obama, who had opposed the mandate during the 2008 campaign, decided to support it.

Eventually, this country will have universal health care, like all the other industrialized nations.

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They weren't allowed to deal, because the Dems owned the House, Senate and White House.

All the effed up details about ACA are courtesy or the Dems.

That increased healthcare insurance premium...courtesy of the Dems.

The Half Trillion stolen from Medicaire...courtesy of the Dems.

LMAO

uh.. the Democrats controlled BOTH houses.

You think the Dems were willing to "deal" on their biggest "prize" in 40 years because they were....nice? When they didn't need a single GOP vote?

Hell no. Democrats completely ignored the GOP during Obama's first 2 years. This was ALL dems from start to finish.

you do realize that democrats locked out republicans from any input on obamacare

and they did so literally also

they had the committee meeting room locks changed, so republican members of the committee, could NOT get into the room, while the law was being written

republicans did contribute to health reform, though they don't admit it often.

FFS, the "death panels" were a republican amednment that would have saved us billions.

but palin and fox fake news succeeded in screwing the country on that one.

to the more clueless of your responses: (D)'s did NOT have 60 votes to beat the (R) filibuster except for 3 months after Kennedy passed.

You answered your own question, Republicans were the minority in that proposal and they did propose a plan that wasn't as harmful. Obviously their proposals won't go anywhere, Democrats don't like negotiating unless it involves playing golf.

The gop stopped compromising about 10 years ago.