CMR backpedals on health care support

In 2010, the Affordable Care Act was passed. People with diabetes, folks previously priced out of the health insurance market by their pre-existing condition, were able to afford insurance. As an ophthalmologist I was able to save or restore the sight of many of these newly insured people before it was too late, people who were then able to continue to work, to drive, to read and to see their wives and children.

Over the next eight years I watched in dismay as our U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers voted time and time again to repeal the Affordable Care Act, pre-existing conditions and...