The Gig is Up! Fisher Lied About Obamacare Support!

The Gig is Up! Fisher Lied About Obamacare Support!
By
James Scott Trimm

On February 2nd Empower Texans published documents which they had uncovered showing that at the very same time Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as “past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to bring Obamacare to Texas. 

Tony McDonald of the Texas Scorecard reported:

Documents uncovered by Texas Scorecard reveal that in April 2013, Scott Fisher urged fellow JPS board members to pass a resolution “supporting Medicaid expansion for Texas” under the provisions of ObamaCare.

Scott Fisher’s ObamaCare resolution passed the JPS board just one week after Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R–Bedford) led the fight against an amendment to the state budget that would have implemented the program. The liberal leadership of the Texas House brought an amendment to the budget implementing the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion before conservatives, led by Stickland, turned the effort back.


Fisher responded very defensively claiming:

This claim is a total fabrication! I am a long-time conservative Republican and have opposed Obama and Obamacare from its inception. Empower Texans failed to check the facts, and facts are pesky things! A resolution was presented to the JPS Board of Managers to encourage the Texas Legislature to call for Medicaid expansion in Texas. I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.

However Fisher refused to produce the actual resolution.  Well Empower Texans has now obtained and published Fisher’s actual revised resolution that Fisher has refused to present.  Yes, facts are pesky things, and the actual resolution proves that the unscrupulous Mr. Fisher has blatantly lied!

The supposedly “anti-Obamacare resolution” asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage,... "

This is NOT an anti-Obamacare resolution by any definition of the terms!  

When Fisher says “I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.” He is telling a flat out LIE!

As Tony McDonald reports in the Texas Scorecard:

Contrary to the version that exists in Fisher’s alternative campaign reality, there was no attack on ObamaCare or condemnation of the noxious program. Instead, the resolution spends three clauses blaming rising premiums on “uncompensated care for the uninsured.”

The complete resolution, as obtained by the Texas Scorecard is pictured at the bottom of this blog.

The fact is that Scott Fisher’s largest single contributor in the published financial disclosures was TEXPAC, which donated more that ten percent of Fisher’s total campaign funds.  TEXPAC is the PAC of the Texas Medical Association, and supports abortion, euthanasia, death panels and yes OBAMACARE.

If Fisher opposes Obamacare as he has claimed, why is his largest single contributor the pro-Obamacare TEXPAC?

The documents speak for themselves, Fisher supports Obamacare and wants to expand Obamacare Medicaid in Texas, but he will say absolutely anything and lie through his teeth to get elected!