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Tulsa County Democrats Watch Party 

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State Sens. Tom Adelson and Judy Eason McIntyre recently hand-delivered all the resolutions and bills passed this last legislative session in Oklahoma aimed at opting Oklahomans out of “Obamacare” to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  

           “We spent so much time this past session dealing with Obamacare we thought it would only be appropriate to make sure these meaningless pieces of paper, which cost the taxpayers of Oklahoma thousands of dollars to produce, should be hand delivered straight to the top,” said Adelson, D-Tulsa.  “We worked hard this session to ensure Oklahomans had limited choices for affordable health care and that insurance companies would continue robbing Oklahoma families of the future they deserve, and we simply couldn’t allow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to come to Oklahoma without informing him personally of our efforts.”

           Eason McIntyre said Majority Leader Reid was somewhat confused by the bills and resolutions passed in the Oklahoma Legislature to allow Oklahomans to opt out of the national health care plan that most Oklahomans know simply as “Obamacare.”   She said the Senator simply couldn’t understand why lawmakers would try to make it harder for Oklahomans to afford health care when lawmakers in Washington worked hard to stand up to greedy insurance companies and give more Oklahomans greater access to quality care without families worried their doctor bills would send them into bankruptcy.

        “Like Senator Reid, we really don’t understand why the legislature wasted so much time passing resolutions and bills that would take health care choices away from Oklahomans and allow health insurance companies to continue discriminating against the poor and the sick, but that is exactly what happened this session,” said Eason McIntyre, D-Tulsa. “Those in charge in the Oklahoma Legislature wanted to spend their time passing resolutions and bills that took health care choices away from Oklahomans rather than focus on important issues like reining in the bad behavior of the powerful insurance lobby.”