There were 13 months of open hearings in both the House and Senate so I am not sure how you can make the statements that the ACA was done in secret. Next the GOP has been against the ACA even though it was a policy proposal from the Heritage foundation. They have had 7 years to have prepared a policy that could address the health care problems which they did not do. The 15 Billion dollar profits for insurance industry does not want the Government involved in changing the law that will cut into their profits.