You  really didn't pay attention to what was going on, you did consume enough right wing media to buy their lies, though.   The stimulus was the first major legislation the Ds tried to pass, not O-Care.  The original stimulus was only money for infrastructure, the Rs said absolutely not, without tax breaks.  The Ds cut the original giveaways by 1/3 and turned them into tax breaks.  The Rs still said no.  The Ds asked what would work, the Rs said, they won't vote for any stimulus bill, even though the economy was in freefall, and even if the stimulus didn't do much, people needed to see that something was being done.  So, yeah, the Rs really did do this.  You are just so blinded by the right wing media machine that you can't see it.  

Around that time, I listened to both right wing media and the MSM, this was covered extensively back then showing how the Rs decided on day 1 that the only answer to anything from the D would be a resounding NO, but hey, I guess it was just fake news.