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Udall is to blame for Obamacare

Coloradans can thank Sen. Udall for the passage of Obamacare. It could not have passed without his vote. He was one of the 60 Democratic senators who rammed through the passage of Obamacare in a straight party-line vote on Christmas Eve 2009. Udall cast the crucial vote for a 2,700-page bill he cannot even seriously claim that he read before voting for it. Visualize that bill: a single piece of legislation comprising more than five reams of paper, a pile of turgid legalese more than 11½-inches thick that nobody in Congress really understood. Maybe Udall followed Nancy Pelosi’s infamous advice: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it ...” More than 20,000 pages of regulations have already been adopted for interpretation and enforcement of Obamacare. What is in them? Most will not be in effect until after the 2014 elections. Then we will begin to find out what is in them.

Udall promised Coloradans that they could keep their insurance plans and doctors if they like them. More than 350,000 privately insured Coloradans have discovered they were misled by Udall’s promises. Hundreds of thousands more with employer-provided health-care insurance coverage will soon discover the falsity of these promises as employers begin dropping employee health-care coverage because of dramatically higher premium costs when Obamacare begins to affect these plans.

Would you want a lawyer advising you to sign a contract he never bothered to read? Would you want a doctor operating on you who never read your medical files? Why would you want to re-elect a senator who voted for a 2,700-page piece of legislation turning the nation’s health-care system upside down, a bill he had not read, much-less understood. What do we pay these guys for?

A vote for Cory Gardner for Senate will help clean up the mess in Washington. Sen. Cory Gardner will be a responsible representative for the residents of Colorado, not just be another rubber stamp for the Obama/Reid political agenda.

Virgil R. Pulliam

Durango



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