It’s a “Republican bill” in the sense it’s mostly stuff from the Dole plan that was made in rivalry to Hillary’s plan in 1993, and also had elements of GOP Governor Romney’s plan.
NOT intimating that any GOP Congressperson seriously considered passing it.
Nobody’s trained to believe it’s “Republicans’ fault”.
When brought up at all, it’s usually a reminder that contrary to widely-held CEC beliefs, Obama actually tried compromising early in his term as President, only to be rebuffed time and time again.
Senator John McCain did the right thing with his vote to not repeal Obamacare. Our GOP Governor wasn’t for the repeal of the ACA at that time. (McCain’s vote against the repeal of the ACA was before when Senators Graham and Cassidy came forth with their healthcare plan.) There was no bipartisan support in repealing Obamacare. Repealing Obamacare would have also meant getting rid of the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Arizona (McCain’s state) here was one of the many states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. And Martha McSally (who voted for the ACA repeal in Congress) ended up losing to Kyrsten Sinema (who voted against the ACA repeal in Congress) in Arizona’s Senate race last November.
Maybe he should have. But Senator McCain represented Arizona. Most of the people of Arizona were against the repeal of the ACA. And that was proven when Martha McSally (who voted for the ACA repeal in Congress) ended up losing to Kyrsten Sinema (who voted against the ACA repeal in Congress) in Arizona’s Senate race last November. https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2018&fips=4&f=0&off=3&elect=0&class=1