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am_Unition · 2632 days ago · link · · parent · post: A win for the wealthy, the entitled and the irresponsible
Included in the bill was a provision that repeals the Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate", and another provision that enables (oil/natural gas) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Similarly, I would be surprised if the Affordable Care Act didn't include at least a few provisions seemingly unrelated to healthcare. Extreme partisanship is undoubtedly the driver of this type of legislative packaging, and I think the method is damaging to democracy, on the whole. Especially when the final, massive (several hundred pages long) bill is released only several days or a couple of weeks before the vote is set to take place.