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A Secret Senate Healthcare Bill Seems A Fitting Conclusion A Senate healthcare bill drawn up hastily in a dark back room seems a fitting con- clusion to the roller-coaster ride we have had in healthcare over the past eight years. It's a culmination of everything the Republicans set in motion when they first stood in united opposition to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation based on a policy proposal from the Herit- age Foundation - a Conserva- tive Think Tank. legislation was repealed. On some 60 separate occasions they voted to repeal the Afford- able Care Act in one form or another, always knowing that even a repeal-bill that gained enough support to make it's way to President Obama's desk would never be signed in- to law. They spent eight long years of Obama's Presidency running their campaigns on re- pealing and replacing Obamacare, convincing their base that they could fix the healthcare problems that the country faced. There are legiti- mate problems with the Afford- able Care Act, the insurance From that moment on they had drawn their lines for battle, they would not rest until the 4