Discussion: Report: Losing GOP Candidate Now Wants To Lead O-Care Agency

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As it is said, “she has issues”.

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Ah, that would be NO! You don’t get to lead a department you tried to destroy!

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You mighta’ thought she’d at least take down her campaign website before calling. But no:

Monica was a prominent opponent of the ACA in 2009, when Obamacare was rolling down the legislative track. She was enlisted to be in a television commercial that ran nationwide, warning people about the dangers of that bill. Monica got a lot of hate mail for that ad campaign and had to change her home phone number, but her warnings have come to
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Premiums have increased. Medicare Advantage benefits for our state’s seniors have been cut. The Obama administration is constantly changing the rules and delaying its own mandates. But, worst of all, Oregonians have been made to suffer the failures of “Cover Oregon”, which has been labeled the worst state-ran health exchange in the nation.

As one person Monica met on the campaign trail told her, “The Affordable Care Act has made my health insurance un-affordable.” This system is so flawed that it needs to be replaced entirely. We need a patient-centered, market-based methodology that puts healthcare in the hands of people rather than politicians – one that is actually affordable, one that is radically different than the one President Obama and Jeff Merkley forced through on a partisan basis.

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Fox guarding henhouse? Or maybe she thinks that she can educate people who attempt to enroll on the “dangers” of government helping out constituents.

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This dingbat ran her whole campaign promising to repeal Obamacare?

Keep your GOPaws of my health insurance.

What a douche bag.

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Oh yeah…THAT’S what Oregon needs. A crazy to lead the health care initiative. Like there isn’t enough ‘drama’ going on already in that state. Please.

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Let’s see.
Monica Wehby?
Or Joe Isuzu?

I still take Joe Isuzu.

jw1

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The best way to destroy an agency is to run it, into the ground. That’s Webby’s aim, no doubt about it. Conservatives prove that government doesn’t work by breaking it.

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In other news, the fox would like to be considered for a leadership role in the guarding of henhouses.

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“Clearly that’s where the health care decisions are being made.”

Which is why she’d want to ensure they were not made.

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Watch out Kitz…turn her down and she’ll be stalking yer azz…

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Some folks will do anything for a job.

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Bwaaa, ha ha! You know folks, we really just have to kick back and laugh the next two years.

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Reminds me of hurricane alley Republican governors who spend 99% of their time denouncing the “Federal Gubbmint” and 1% of their time begging for Federal aid, post hurricane.

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Under a few conditions, they will at least consider her. First, she has to go on the 5 o’clock news and admit that she was lying about Obamacare and also dead wrong and that the law is working and has proven to be quite flexible.
Second, she has to renounce her membership in the dishonest Republican Party and explain how she came to be enticed into lying about Obamacare.
Third, she needs to personally sign up 250 new enrollees into the O-care plans and see that they make their first payment and are informed enough that they too can go out and help others.
Finally, Marcus Welby wanna be has to give back all of the campaign funds that she has left and expose in detail her three biggest contributors.

And that’s all really, then she can be considered.

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Wehby wants to leave a job making over 800,000 a year to run an agency whose main task is to make a health care bill she wants to destroy work…all for less than 200,000 a pay cut of over 600,000. Anybody think her brain surgery career not quite on track?

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My Medicare Advantage is just fine, thank you. It’s a local company and the cost is less than AARP, Humana, etc. with a smaller deductible and premium.

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From her campaign website:

But Monica, dear, we have had a market-based methodology and it didn’t work.

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Shorter Doctor Wehby “Nice little health care agency you have there. Shame if something should happen to it” :fu:

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