Obamacare Belongs in Ripley's "Believe It or Not."

How did the Affordable Care Act ever become law? A majority of Americans were against Obamacare before it passed, and now, almost four years later, a majority still objects to the law. Believe it or not, the following is the little known truth behind the passing of Obamacare.

All revenue bills have to originate in the House of Representatives but the Democrats in the House were unable to pass their own version of a Healthcare law. Not to be deterred, the Democrats in the Senate found a bill that met those qualifications: HR3590, a military housing bill. Unbelievably, they basically eliminated all of the wording in it, and turned it into the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. You just can't make this stuff up. It's fact.

Unfortunately, after the Democrats passed this new bill, Senator Ted Kennedy died, jeopardizing their 6o-vote majority. To complicate matters, Massachusetts elected a Republican, Scott Brown, who promised to vote against Obamacare. That meant that if the House made any changes to the bill, the Senate wouldn't have enough votes to pass the "corrected" bill, because they knew no Republicans would vote for it.

So, the Senate Democrats made a deal with the House Democrats. Now stay with me. It's going to get even more diabolical.

THE DEAL: The Democratically-controlled House would pass the Senate bill without any changes, but only if the Senate agreed to pass a "separate bill" by the House that made changes to the Senate version of Obamacare. This second bill was called the Reconciliation Act of 2010.

So, the House passed the Senate's Obamacare bill as well as their Reconciliation Act, but now, the Senate must pass the added Reconciliation Act. Do you have a migraine yet? Stay with me because we're getting close to passing Obamacare.

Because the Senate only had 59 votes, the Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared they could use the "Reconciliation Rule"--a rule only used for budget item approval--therefore needing only 51 votes, rather than the normal 60. This rule was never intended for comprehensive legislation such as this, but the Democrats went forward with it anyway, and Obamacare was passed--all of this done without a single Republican vote-- (58-0)--"One Party Rule."

Historically, major landmark social legislation has always had bipartisan support. In 1935, Social Security was enacted with a 372-33 vote in the House and 77-6 in the Senate. In 1965, Medicare passed in the Senate 70-24 and in the House 307-116.

The original draft of the 1935 law that established the Social Security Administration was 64-pages. Unbelievably, Obamacare was over 2,400 pages and never read in totality by a single Democrat that voted for it. As of October 13th of this year, (according to the USA Today), it contains an additional 11,000 pages of regulations.

You don't need a Masters degree in Political Science to understand why this law, which totally transforms the delivery of healthcare in America, and once again picks government's winners and losers, is destined for failure.

Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court put it simply after declaring Obamacare constitutional. He said the Supreme Court doesn't rule on policy decisions, such as Obamacare. "Those decisions are entrusted to our nation's elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them."

The moral of this blog: If you like your over-reaching, progressive government.....you can keep it. Or, you can turn out in historic numbers in 2014 and 2016 and elect conservatives who will bring accountability and fiscal responsibility back to Washington.