“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.

[GOPJ]

She believed Obama... that doesn’t mean she deserves to be spit on... Be happy that she’ll open her mind next time and look at some of the incentives involved.

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

Own it, love.

And when, during your yearly physical, the doctor puts on a rubber glove and then fingers your piehole for an enlarged prostrate, remember your vote and the accompanying idiotic bureaucracy that wrote the approved healthcare policies.

Me? As a post-child bearing male, I can't wait until I get to place my feet in the stirrups and spread eagle for my pelvic exam.

[endthematrix]

After I had told a software developer for the BCBS IL exchange that Obama lied, he said (with pride)”Yep!” I said that the failure of the exchanges was to usher in single payer...he agreed and said THEY (what hidden cabal is this?) had not released that to the public! This was last June,

[Billthedrill]

Hey, if she’d just kept her Congressional job she’d be exempted and wouldn’t have this problem. Now she’s one of the little people.

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Yes, the dreaded ant-gun person. Of course I meant anti-gun...alas.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Revolting cat!]

How many years has she spent being willfully uninformed?

[SpaceBar]

How many years has she spent being willfully uninformed?

Determine her age and you will have your answer.

[4rcane]

them who are unhappy now are just complaining that they have to pay it. They don’t have a problem with others paying it, as long as its not them. Free health care for all, cept if they have to pay more

[TigersEye]

It’s too bad that she was so arrogant that she thought people were extremely upset over nothing. She should have listened to them.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’m glad she woke up but she deserved to be spit upon.

No, she didn't. You're talking like a Democrat.

[PGR88]

I personally doubt anyone spat at her.

I have seen some angry people at such protests and town-hall meetings, but ALWAYS peaceful and civil.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Suddenly, when it hits her pocketbook, Sue learns about logic and how it is more critical than emotion. This is what happens when an ant-gun person is mugged or robbed. The see things in a new light. It’s wonderful that Great Leader is robbing his own people. It’s even more funner, and betterer that Great Leader and our hollowed leaders in DC are exempt from the mugging.

Yeah, but you know what burns? She'll still vote Rat next election and every one after.

[Tolkien]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahha

[Mercat]

My husband and I are both now on Medicare but we realized that when we were buying out own policy, it would have been cancelled. Wow. So we’re just sitting here like welfare queens waiting for our Medicare BCBS advantage to be cancelled. In the meantime, we ain’t paying for nothing. It’s great.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I have no sympathy for this dumb b__ch but we need her. We need people to wake up and see how horrible it is. There are a lot of passive, ignorant people out there who are easily fooled, not to mention the lazy who think this is a way to get free stuff paid for by “the rich.” They all need to understand how badly they are getting screwed by Socialism. So I welcome this idiot to the right side. Who knows, maybe she’ll next learn that conservatives don’t all have horns and a tail.

[darkwing104]

I look at it this way, She made her deal with the Devil and after she learns her fate she has regrets...now its time for her to keep her end of the bargain...

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Better late than never, to realize the truth. Now she realizes that she was LIED to and that she was HURT and others too.\

Is there any evidence that she reevaluated her basic beliefs? I think not. She is mad because she was lied to not because she couldn't figure out the program can't work. She is still a socialist at heart.

[sitetest]

“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.”

Refraining from executing her by hanging was civility and respect enough. The vermin deserved far worse than it got.