On the recordJanuary 18, 2011
When I ran for Congress, I vowed to repeal ObamaCare, and with one of my first votes in the 112th Congress, I will do so. As a nurse for 20 years, co-owner of a wound care clinic, and in practice with my husband in his general surgery practice, we know the problems that exist for Americans in health care. Instead of being a remedy to these problems, ObamaCare has already done more harm than good to both the quality of health care in our country as well as our economy. As a nurse, I look for pathways to solutions; this is a problematic pathway undoubtably. In the face of rising unemployment, unsustainable Federal deficits, and overwhelming public opposition, it took more than a year to cobble together an unpopular government takeover of health care so riddled with provisions that violate right-to-life principles and support government rationing of care that it cannot simply be patched. ObamaCare is bad for workers. It's bad for employers and bad for America.
