RINO Alert! Chris Burbank – So-Called Republican Running in Moultonborough NH

by
Steve MacDonald

No More RINO's - RLCNH puts up the records they must run onRINO Alert.  Someone named Chris Burbank is running as a Republican in Moultonborough, New Hampshire.  Carroll County,  District 4.

No need to check voter history, just take a look at his Facebook page and you know this guy is a RINO.

Centrally planned and run economies…

Very disappointed to hear the news coming out of Washington DC today. Although not a perfect law by any stretch of the imagination, the Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction to solving our nation’s healthcare crisis. I know it stands in direct opposition to the views shared by many in my party, but access to affordable healthcare should be a opportunity given to everyone, not just those that can afford it. #NewGOP #ModerateAndProud #NotDrinkingTheTea

Self contradicting on the 1st amendment…

Although I am firm and steadfast believer in the 1st Amendment, I also don’t agree with badgering people simply seeking basic access to their healthcare needs. Hopefully a compromise can be met.

Neither firm nor steadfast, just ignorant.  But he has the left’s talking point language down pat.

Chris Burbank either suffers from a fundamental failure to grasp what these incursions are about or is a progressive and doesn’t know it (or does and is hiding it.)  ObamaCare has nothing to do with providing health care, it is about control.   In the end it will limit access and quality, and harm not just the people Burbank thinks it will help, but millions of others who were forced out of plans they liked.

State Senator Jeanne Shaheen crippled access in New Hampshire as a State Senator under the presumption it would improve service, cost and access.  It did the opposite.  Providers bailed, options dwindled, and premiums soared.  Now we have ObamaCare, again with the help of Shaheen, and it has just gotten worse.

Local control, and open markets, with buffet plans would be far more affordable and accessible than top down, federally managed mandates.  When fully enforced employer mandates come online everyone will feel the true destructive power of Obamacare.  State workers employed by municipalities will find their towns being taxed 3000.00 per employee for those ‘Cadillac’ health care plans, a new cost that will either grow local budgets from thousands to millions, or will find state employees looking for plans in a marketplace they cannot even legally access, all written that way by Democrats who crammed it down everyone’s throat while lying about keeping your plans, your doctors, just about everything.

New Hampshire has no state exchange.  There is no legal place under ObamaCare for those forced out of plans because it makes them unaffordable.  Building one in the Granite State will only trap public employees, town budgets, taxpayers, and citizens in a failed system that forces people into a cost to service relationship that delivers inferior coverage and access, with options most people neither need or want.

Instead of embracing this failure again, New Hampshire could open up its market to every health care insurers in the nation (or the world) and let them pay to build nay number of web sites to provide buffet plans that compete for providers and services that people actually need, at costs only a fraction of the centrally planned nightmare the Democrats hoisted on us.  Businesses wont have to dump their employees into any exchange.  Towns and unions will be able to search dozens (if not hundreds) of competitive plans (on working websites built and paid for by providers and insurers) with hundreds of options, saving the unions and the taxpayers millions of dollars that could then be used on other services, wages, or needed jobs, while preventing tax increases in a struggling economy.

Opening the market to providers nd buffet plans could help us get people off Medicaid by encouraging companies to move here for the health care advantages an open market provides.  More employers means more jobs, and more revenue.   That free-marker stimulus gives us options for keeping people off entitlements and funding misguided promises without new taxes while we roll back recent expansions we would no longer need.

yes you willEmbracing ObamaCare and its broken promises are just an extension of the failed policies started by state Senator Jeanne Shaheen in our state 15-20 years ago.  An open, competitive insurance market not only increases access and improves service on the insurer end, it pushes prices down and encourages health care providers to seek efficiencies to compete for patients.

ObamaCare, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA system, all do exactly the opposite.

Republicans like Chris Burbank will not lead us to  change that even works.  He has bought in, at a fundamental level, to the progressive lies that trap people in crumbling and unsustainable state and federal entitlements whose only future is dwindling access and cuts to services as massive debt obligations nibble at promises that could never be kept.

Ignorance is no excuse for a Lawmaker.  If we want a growing and prosperous New Hampshire with lawmakers willing to defend us from  bumbling central planners, Chris Burbank is not a “Republican” we want in  Concord.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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