THE BILBRAY FILES
December 2, 2013
Bilbray-Kohn: Running from ObamaCare
The American Action Network is
running a series of “Cyber Monday” web ads today
focusing on Democrats who appear to have been for ObamaCare before they were against
it, including Nevada Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn.
AAN ad notes that at an Obama for America
campaign event last June, Bilbray-Kohn declared that "President Obama
passed the affordable care act to restore health care as a basic cornerstone of
security for the middle class."
Leave aside for the moment that
President Obama didn’t pass ObamaCare; Congress did. You would hope that someone running for, you
know, Congress, would understand that Congress passes bill and the president
either signs or vetoes them. But let’s
not quibble.
Bilbray-Kohn added that ObamaCare “does
not only cut down health care costs, but creates a better quality of life for
us all."
Of course, that was before the
wheels came off the HealthCare.gov apple cart and before some 25,000 Nevadans
started getting cancellation notices from their health insurance companies
despite Obama promise that “if you like your plan you can keep it.”
That was also before folks who
semi-miraculously were actually able to use the HealthCare.gov website
discovered that the ObamaCare policies available were HIGHER than we
were led to believe, far from “cutting down health care costs.”
Oops.
Which is why Bilbray-Kohn is now
running from ObamaCare like a scalded dog!
As AAN notes, in a recent
interview with Andrew Doughman of
the Las Vegas Sun, our 4-percenter
was singing a very different tune, and decidedly not from the White House’s
song sheet…
"I share all of America’s frustration because we have a website (healthcare.gov) that is not working... but I do think the president needs to honor his commitment."
The commitments, again, were that
if you liked your current health care plan you could keep it, that ObamaCare
would reduce health care costs, and that the website where you could buy an
ObamaCare health care plan would be fully operational in October.
President Obama built an
Edsel. Bilbray-Kohn hawked it for
him. Now everyone knows what Republicans knew and said all along; that
ObamaCare is a lemon.
Should we reward Bilbray-Kohn for
such colossal bad judgment by electing her to Congress where she’d be in a
position to make this bad situation worse?
I…don’t…think…so.
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