With Democrats having lost a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate but having already passed the Senate bill with 60 votes on December 24 , the most viable option for the proponents of comprehensive reform was for the House to abandon its own health reform bill , the Affordable Health Care for America Act , and pass the Senate 's bill , the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , instead .
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a bill in the United States .