Sure there was. One party wanted to put into place a huge, sweeping new law that was significantly unpopular with more than half of the population and bitterly opposed by 100% of the congressional minority's party opponents. The law would never have been passed if a handful of Democrat politicians hadn't been persuaded to support it despite their vocal misgivings. That persuasion came in the form of their constituents being convinced that the law wasn't going to hurt them, and those few representatives giving in and echoing Pelosi's and Obama's repeated soothing words. Those words were a months-long, sustained, carefully orchestrated campaign of deliberate, repeated lies. That's the scam part: getting someone to act based on fraud.
The lies - the foundation for the scam that secured the votes under false pretenses - were in the form of the repeated assertions that:
1) Personal insurance costs would go down. That is not true, and everyone from the CBO to every insurance actuary in the country said as much, loudly, in advance. But there was the president saying it was so, and that health insurance would cost about as much as a monthly mobile phone bill. He knew that wasn't true, and that in fact for millions of people immediately, and many millions more shortly after, monthly costs would go substantially up. Exactly as has happened.
2) That if we wanted to keep our current insurance plans, we could. Again, this was something they knew was not true. Saying it over and over again was a deliberate lie.
3) That if we wanted to keep our current doctors, we could. Again, like the above, a conscious, deliberate lie meant to fool people into supporting representatives that needed to vote for a law their initial instincts told them not to - and of course some have already refused to tell reporters if they'd vote for it again.
4) That the law wouldn't impact the budget deficit and debt. Again, as above, a purposeful, knowing deception. The CBO made it clear that wasn't the case, and indeed, it's not the case.
5) That buying annual insurance would be as simple as booking airline tickets on Expedia. That glib assertion wasn't a mistake or a misunderstanding, it was another bald-faced, completely self-aware lie. Nobody at any level of the many institutions involved in planning this ever thought anything so absurd was going to be the case, and of course it's not. Saying so, over and over again, was part of a deliberate misrepresentation.
There's much more, of course. But the point is that the law was sold to hesitant lawmakers and voters under false claims. It was a confidence game. A scam.
You are just wildly lying about people losing their insurance.
Millions of people had their plans cancelled, and many millions more are about to. How are you not clear on this? Many of them have had to go out and buy something different, but what they had was killed off, and what's available to replace it is far more expensive. The first group of millions who lost their plans were the self-employed types who are especially wounded by the ACA-approved "affordable" options that cost much more. And for those that weren't insured before because they couldn't afford it, and now have scraped together the hundreds per month to buy it, how many of them have the cash to handle thousands and thousands annually for what they must pay out of pocket before their high deductibles are satisfied? Those aren't the people able to buy the gold plans with the low deductibles. And of course many who have pre-existing conditions now get coverage, but the law is silent on how much that must cost them - so of course their choices are still very expensive. Our own rates are jumping hugely next year because of the unexpectedly (hah!) high number of healthy young people who have decided they'd rather pay a cheap fine than spend thousands a year on insurance when they're healthy, and then just opt in to buying it if they get sick. Like nobody saw THAT coming, right?
You hate the president and democrats and that has nothing to do with your health care costs.
No, I completely dislike them for lying their asses off in order to pass a transparently flawed BS bill that doesn't do the very things they swore it would do. If they were merely incompetent, and didn't realize that, it would be bad enough. But they knew it, and lied about it non-stop for months. You know that, I know that, and everyone else knows that. Which is one of the reasons their prospects are so poor in today's election. They got caught planning, executing, and lying about a huge scam.