The cost of Obamacare in Texas

Dr. Donna Campbell:

Running for U.S. Congress, people often ask me how hard is it to kick a 16-year incumbent like Lloyd Doggett out of office.

How about hard enough to break a foot?

That’s exactly what happened to me on September 23, when I took a tumble in a parking lot at work. I then proceeded to finish my shift at the ER, seeing patients while unaware anything was broken, before finally getting X-rays … and becoming a patient myself. The good news? I broke my left foot, and thanks to the last four years of Democrat policies, we all know everything on the Left is broken anyway.

Oddly enough, my accident occurred the same week that ObamaCare turned six months old. Coincidence? For the next six weeks I get to wear a painful reminder of the damage the Democrats’ 2,500 page monstrosity is doing to our health care system. If only we could repeal ObamaCare in such a short time.

How is ObamaCare affecting me as a patient? It means the plate and pins surgically placed in my foot now cost more thanks to tax hikes on medical manufacturers. The same goes for the monitors and instruments used during surgery, as well as the crutches I’m now using.

The fact is the burden of a broken foot is nothing compared to the drag ObamaCare is now, and will increasingly be, on our economy — not to mention the debt it saddles our children and grandchildren with. We know Speaker Pelosi and crew sold the health care nationalization ploy as “deficit neutral,” legis-speak for “no added cost.” But former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag corrected that whopper for the record. Already ObamaCare is costing employees their current coverage, causing corporations like McDonald’s to lobby federal bureaucrats for compliance waivers (many of which have been granted, and seemingly arbitrarily), and forcing insurance premiums through the roof.

Lloyd Doggett, my Democratic opponent in TX-25, championed this legislation, claiming he not only read the bill, he helped write it. Never has pride in authorship been so ardent. He was one of three deciding votes to join Speaker Pelosi in pushing ObamaCare through the U.S. House despite strong opposition by the people. But these days, Mr. Doggett is keeping his key ObamaCare role silent as the election fast approaches and the flaws of the legislation become more evident. You can hardly blame him. I’d rather stand on my broken foot than Lloyd Doggett’s record.

...
There is more.

I met Dr. Campbell before she broke her foot. She is an energetic candidate and deserves a shot at this seat. With the number of new people who have moved into what was once a liberal district I think she has a chance.

I have known Lloyd since my law school days and on a personal level he is a nice guy, but politically he still embraces the evils of liberalism and his recent shenanigans on the education bill is going to cost Texas students including my grand kids..

His position on the health care monstrosity and the stimulus bill gives Texans several reasons to vote for Dr. Campbell.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now.  It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Read more

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Conn Carroll: A new survey of 368 midsize to large companies found that 29% of them are considering terminating their active employee health care plans when Obamacare is full implemented in 2014. Only 71% of employers surveyed said they did not expect to drop their health coverage, while 20% said they did not know and 9% said they were planning to exit. The latest survey, conducted by Towers Watson, echoes an ealier survey by McKinsey & Co. finding that 30% of private-sector employers were planning to drop their employee health insurance coverage by 2014. When the Congressional Budget Office crunched Obamacare's spending numbers, they estimated that only 7% of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans would lose their plans. ... This means the cost of the health care fiasco will be hundreds of billions more than estimated by the CBO and Congressional Democrat. It is also clear that Obama's pledge that you could keep your health care plan if you wanted t
Read more

Bin Laden's concern about Zarqawi's remains

James Robbins: ... Bin Laden suggests that President Bush should allow Zarqawi’s body to be returned to his family in Jordan, but this is a matter that is up to the Jordanian government, which so far has not shown much interest in facilitating a homecoming. Bin Laden mocks King Abdullah II, calling him a Coalition minion, and asking “w hat scares you about Abu Musab after he’s dead? You know that his funeral, if allowed to happen, would be a huge funeral showing the extent of sympathy with the mujahedin.” A large crowd would definitely turn out, though most people would be on hand to demonstrate their anger and disgust. Last November’s hotel bombings in Amman , masterminded by Zarqawi, are still fresh in people’s memory, and mentioning them to Jordanians has the same visceral impact as memory of the 9/11 attacks does here. Jordan has adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards those who choose to mourn the country’s least favorite son, and four opposition members of parliament who paid con
Read more