“I SPENT TWO YEARS DEFENDING OBAMACARE … I HAVE NOW LEARNED THAT I WAS WRONG.”

Catholic Vote ^ | October 29, 2013 | JOSHUA MERCER

[NYer]

Meet Sue Klinkhamer.

She worked in the office of Representative Bill Foster, a Democrat from Illinois. Her boss voted for Obamacare and she was a proud defender of Obamacare, too.

“I spent two years defending Obamacare. I had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can’t put in print. The congressman was not re-elected in 2010 mainly because of the anti-Obamacare anger. When the congressman was not re-elected, I also (along with the rest of our staff) lost my job. I was upset that because of the health care issue, I didn’t have a job anymore but still defended Obamacare because it would make health care available to everyone at, what I assumed, would be an affordable price.”

First, a quick point on civility. Whether it’s Customer Service for Verizon or a staffer working for an elective official, we must treat everyone with Christian dignity and respect. So, I’m sorry that Sue had people spit at her or call her names.

But Sue isn’t defending Obamacare anymore. She noted that President Obama had promised many times: “If you like your health plan, you will keep it.”

She now knows the truth. She admitted: “I have now learned that I was wrong. Very wrong.”

When voters fired her boss in the 2010 elections, she had to get another job and that meant she had to shop for health care, too. Three years ago, she got a plan that cost $225 a month with a $2,500 deductible. But then her health care company sent a letter a few weeks ago.

“Blue Cross,” she said, “stated my current coverage would expire on Dec. 31, and here are my options: I can have a plan with similar benefits for $647.12 [or] I can have a plan with similar [but higher] pricing for $322.32 but with a $6,500 deductible.”

She went on, “Blue Cross also tells me that if I don’t pick one of the options, they will just assume I want the one for $647. … Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?” …

“And I was excited that previously uninsured people could now get insurance on the open market. But this is not affordable to me.”

You can argue facts and figures all day long. You can mention that 500,000 Californians will lose their current healthcare insurance plans. And you can often get into a shouting match about this fact and that fact.

Sometimes it’s better to simply tell a story that brings the policy fight to life.

And while I doubt I’ll agree with her 100%, Sue Klinkhamer has a story to tell.

Obamacare is driving up the cost of health care for millions of Americans, including people like Sue Klinkhamer who were working full-time to get this horrible legislation passed.

[sportutegrl]

Wake Up Little Suzy.

[Clay Moore]

[Gumdrop]

I hope that does not mean that all women are stupid and liberal. It is not true!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Thank U

[alstewartfan]

You deserve what you got, Fool! Bob

[rolling_stone]

as Forrest Gump would say-stupid is as stupid does. How many times does one have to be lied to by liberals to wake up?

[bkopto]

No, of course not all women are “stupid or liberal”. However, as documented by scholar John Lott, the new women’s vote was associated with a striking increase in the size of US government. See http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2012/01/womens-suffrage-and-size-of-government.html?m=1

[Chad_the_Impaler]

“We have to pass the healthcare bill, and then we have to be billed for the first monthly premium, before we know what’s in it.”

[count-your-change]

No harsher lesson can be taught the meddlers than that they live with results of their actions as the rest of us must.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

So, I’m sorry that Sue had people spit at her or call her names.

Maybe that happened, maybe it didn't. Dems will certainly lie about such things.

[Nuc 1.1]

Spit upon, no. Everything else, yep.

[Nuc 1.1]

Another one of the know it all do gooders so convinced of their own righteousness that they are willing to sell out their freedom and ours in the name of goodness. Such wonderfulness.

[arasina]

I have noticed that media are neglecting to mention an important fact: the insurance companies cannot offer the same plans because the Obamacare LAW prohibits them from doing so!

Many people will argue that the greedy insurance companies just want to make huge profits; it's not Obama's fault. Hey, frogs in the soup pot...are you feeling the fundamentally transformational heat yet?

[apostoli]

Oh, she deserves ALLOT more than just spit. When i have an ‘opinion’, i do NOT expect it to AFFECT millions of americans in their pocketbook, not to mention change the relationship with our Fed Gov’t.

BUTT this bit*h did no matter what Obamma said. She was and IS willing to take from others just like the 99% of the 33% of LOSERS that can only use lowest common denominator laws to ‘lean forward’. Pathetic Parasites.

NO sympathy and NO ‘needing’ them to change. DEFEAT these non-majority lazy f**ks anywhere all the time without remorse. No quarter. Can you say ‘free gov’t cheese’, i thought you could.

TGO “I Have Had ENUF!”

[GOPJ]

If you’re not a liberal when you’re young you don’t have a heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re older, you don’t have a brain. She was young.

[skeptoid]

“I SPENT TWO YEARS DEFENDING OBAMACARE … I HAVE NOW LEARNED THAT I WAS WRONG.”

Maybe this image will help her remember:

[Right Wing Assault]

she and her boss were lied to and he was forced to vote on this before anyone but the people deep inside the thing could find out for themselves what was really in it

Forced? How? No one can force them to vote. Who in their right MORAL mind would vote for an enormous bill without knowing what was in it? The right thing to do would have been for all these cowards to band together and say, NO! We will not vote on this under pressure. We will not vote until we have plenty of time to see what is in it.

Lady, I have a car I am selling. I am forcing you to buy it. No, you can't drive it. No, you can't look inside it. No, you can't even see a picture of it. Give me the money now. The deadline is noon today. I have to sell this to you by then and I am forcing you to buy it, NOW!

[monocle]

Another liberal mugged by reality.

[who knows what evil?]

I had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can’t put in print.

Prove it. Even if so; she shouldn't complain...her fate would have been much worse in colonial times.

[Rocky]

Well, Nancy Pelosi, now everyone can see what’s in it.