Has anyone else noted the delicious irony of 50,000 people in Spokane County, not to mention many thousands of others in the 5th Congressional District, benefiting from the Affordable Care Act, yet Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers continues to vote for bills that will kill it?

According to the March 9 Spokesman-Review, new clinics are being built by CHAS Health, Rockwood Health System and Providence Health Care, which means more people are employed in the construction industry, and the facilities and associated businesses are adding staff, but Cathy wants to kill the program and put them all back on the streets. (Read “Jobs is her first priority.” Really?)

As more folks line up for care and more folks benefit from both the availability of additional facilities (right now, according to the S-R, some of the facilities are maxed out and growth is needed to meet the demand), Cathy continues to blindly do the bidding of her handlers instead of what is good for the people in her district.

Oh, and that Republican “replacement” plan, where is it? Let’s help Cathy out in the next election. Help her out of office, that is, by remembering all the “good” things she is doing.

Ed Simpson

Spokane Valley