A lot of the failures of the law I put on Republicans.
It's hard to fix something you aren't allowed to read, let alone introduce amendments to.[0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
EDIT: added Pelosi quote video link
Look up: Gang of Six affordable care act.
The HCR bill included 6 core planks of previous Republican health care bills, and the Democrats accepted and incorporated 161 amendments to the bill from Republicans.
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/hcr_amendments/ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/five_com...
The article you quote is from a month before the final version of the bill was even prepared (H.R. 3590), let alone submitted for vote.
Bills in progress mean nothing, especially to that Democrat leadership, who often used the gut-and-amend procedure to completely redo legislation on the fly, avoiding rules regarding which committee(s) a bill must traverse.