Pyrolizard, here is evidence that the original bill was passed via reconciliation. First, we bring up the Obamacare H.R. 3590 bill on govtrack.us.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590#overview
Introduced - Sep 17, 2009
Passed House - Oct 08, 2009
Passed Senate with Changes - Dec 24, 2009
House Agreed to Changes - Mar 21, 2010
Signed by the President - Mar 23, 2010
Look at the dates for the key passings.
Okay.
Firstly, it is alleged that the House first passed the Obamacare on October 8, 2010. This is factually incorrect. On October 8, 2010 the H.R. 3590 bill was a Military Housing Bill. Here is the PDF of the original bill with October 8,2010 clearly stamped at the top. The House was passing an entirely different bill, which was then gutted and used by the Senate as a carcass for its platform. This is wrong.
No, it's factually correct. H.R. 3590 passed the House on October 8, 2009, as I presume you meant. It was then modified and passed by Senate, with the modifications being approved by the House. There's nothing wrong with this so far, it did indeed follow the law that any modifications must be passed by both portions of Congress.
Next, lets look at the second time the House passed Obamacare. Lets search on the house.gov website for that date, Mar 21, 2010, where the "House Agreed to Changes".
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?q=flooraction/floor-action-on-hr-4872-the-health-care-and-education-reconciliation-act
The nation’s historic health reform legislation, commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act, is the consolidation of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act.
On March 21, 2010, the House took up H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as passed by the U.S. Senate. The House debated and passed H.R. 3590 by a roll call vote of 219 - 212, clearing the measure for the White House. At the same time, the House considered H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which amended financing and revenue provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The House debated and passed H.R. 4872 on March 21, 2010, by a roll call vote of 220 – 211.
We see that during this vote Obamacare was packaged with a reconciliation bill and passed under reconciliation rules.
We see that this vote relied that both pass. As I said, it's entirely possible that everything of substance was in the reconciliation, and there is no law against this. There is nothing explicitly prohibiting passing a law that relies heavily on future amendment, reconciliations included.
We see that it's entirely possible for both to be rejected by the House. They didn't, and subsequent attempts at a repeal of the ACA failed.
If you'd care to research a bit more, you'd see that the reconciliation was still in Congress as of March twenty fifth where indeed two provisions were stricken by the Byrd Rule, after which point the Senate passed the amendment to the ACA, and soon after the House passed it once again. Three chances to reject it, and still nothing.
What we do not see is that the ACA was limited to twenty hours of debate in the Senate, or that it only required fifty one votes in the same chamber. Indeed it took longer than that, and indeed it got the full amount of required votes. There are no special reconciliation requirements for the House, you realize, and H.R. 3590 was not defined as a reconciliation. Again, it couldn't be, for both reasons I've already detailed as well as the limit of one reconciliation allowed per year.
So I'm still failing to see what your problem here is, when again the means used were entirely legitimate, much like your hero Boehner.