Virginia Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat who
is not running for reelection, said at a
Washington, D.C. breakfast that Obamacare would be President Barack
Obama’s “biggest downside politically.” The legislation, he continued, “cost
Obama a lot of credibility as a leader.”
On the same day as Senator Webb's
remarks, the real-world consequences of Obamacare came to light, as a South
Carolina website flagged a letter
that a Spartanburg, SC private practice wrote to its patients, telling them
that the practice would close its doors next month.
Boiling Springs Family Medicine wrote to their patients that, presumably because
of the regulations they would have to comply with under Obamacare, they would
“no longer be able to provide you with medical care,” and “it is with a heavy
heart that we have to inform you” of the closing.
The private practice wrote that “the challenges of practicing primary care
medicine independently in today’s world and economy are too great” and “new
guidelines and regulations have made the practice of medicine as we know it
impossible as independent practitioners.”
Of course, those who espoused Obamacare had to know that private practices
such as Boiling Springs Family Medicine would close, forcing more citizens to
be dependent on government for their health care.
Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s governor, has repeatedly said that if Mitt
Romney defeats Obama in the fall, she would immediately ask for Obamacare
waivers for her state’s private practices.
One can only that will happen.
But unfortunately, private practices like Boiling Springs Family Medicine
-- and their patients -- will not get such waivers because Obamacare has made
them inoperable before the election.
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