The RATS had full control of the House and Senate, why would they need to play games with a house bill to pass owebamacare?
That part never made sense to me.
Because Scott Brown was elected to Ted Kennedy’s old seat, so the Dems no longer had 60 votes to close debate on new bills in the Senate. So they had to use a bill that had passed in the house, because “reconciliations” don’t need more than 50 votes to close debate.