You wrote, "It is true the opposition worked hard to improve this bill."  No!  The mindset of the Senate and House on the part of the GOP was to impede or annul anything that President Obama presented.  Remember when McConnell and Boehner  vowed to stop anything President Obama brought forward to make him a one term President traitorously putting ideology and party before the good of the country?  Remember that?   Those amendmends were mostly intended to laden this Republican Heritage Foundation health care so that it wouldn't succeed because President Obama had brought it forward ...even though it would benefit the people of this country.  After all, Romney had successfully used Heritage Foundation health care in Massachusetts when he was Governor there.