Completely wrong on all three counts. Perhaps you should watch the Frontline documentary, "The Deal". It lays out exactly how the PPACA (bka, "ObamaCare") ultimately came about.
1. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners wanted it, specifically the individual mandate, because they knew that such a health insurance reform policy provision would lead to more customers for the health insurance industry. Moreover, Republicans were for it before they were against it. They only used the "unconstitutional" line during the Clinton era because they knew that without a taxing provision such a "mandate" would never clear constitutional hurdles. This time, though, that old attack line didn't work. Justice Robert saw to that. :wink:
2. Not true. GWB wanted to do something about the national health care issue, but was advised not to take up the issue. Besides, he clearly had more pressing issues on his plate, i.e., two wars. But to the point...well, I'll let his words speak for him. Quoted commentary from 2000:
OMG! A $2,000 credit...a rebate for working people so that they can afford health insurance? The ability to sell health insurance across state lines? Affordable health care? How dare that big government socialist try to take over the health care system. Moreover, Democrats have cared about changing national health care since the Clinton era, but Republicans made damned sure that didn't happen by using the same old attack lines and misinformation they used way back then.
3. Now, here you got me...kinda. People still believe that the original 2,000 page draft of health care reform is the same bill that got signed into law. It's not. The actually bill that was signed into law, HR 3590, is ONLY 906 pages long.
As to the President being "so overly adamant and overzealous about it, insisting they pass it without anybody knowing what (was) in it", again watch the documentary and then you'll know exactly how health care reform really came about. It wasn't "too unusually" or "odd". And yes, I know the real reason the law came into being and how it eventually passed. Do you? Again, watch the documentary and then you'll know, too.