Abbott: Obamacare interferes with doctor-patient relationship [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott welcomed U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the state capital with a scathing denunciation of the federal health care law, which she is promoting and which he unsuccessfully sued to stop.

“Obamacare is the wrong prescription for American health care, and I will never stop fighting against it,” Abbott said, joined by small business people and a doctor who also oppose the law at a company, the Texas Mailhouse.

One reason that Abbott gave for fighting the law came in response to a doctor who asked him from the audience about what Texas could do to keep the federal law from interfering with doctors’ judgment about the best way to treat their patients.

“You’re raising one of the more challenging components of Obamacare, and a hidden component in a way, and that is government is stepping in between the doctor-patient relationship and trying to tell you what you can and cannot do, interfering with both your conscience and your medical oath to take care of your patient,” said Abbott, who is campaigning to succeed Gov. Rick Perry.

More at http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2013/08/abbott-obamacare-interferes-with-doctor-patient-relationship-2/?cmpid=houtexhcat .

[font color=green]But it's okay for the state to interfere in a women's right for abortion? Read Abbott's response and how he waffled on addressing Ted Cruz's move to shut down the government at the link.[/font]

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