House Leadership Has Been Writing Bills Behind Closed Doors for Years

Lee Drutman wrote for Vox's Polyarchy about the secretive nature of Republicans' Obamacare repeal, and how it is not a new phenomenon: 

While the optics might look bad — especially since just a few days earlier, House Speaker Paul Ryan explicitly said on NBC’s Today show that “we’re not hatching some bill in a backroom and plopping it on the American people’s front door” — this is actually nothing particularly new or shocking. It’s more or less how House leaders have been doing business for years. And they’ve been doing it for a reason: It’s by far the most effective way to get a bill passed.