On Friday, Dr. Barbara Bellar told Fox News' Greta van Susteren that despite an excellent record, she lost her job at Metro South Medical Center in Blue Island, Ill., for opposing Obamacare.
Dr. Bellar ran for the Illinois State Senate this year as an ardent opponent of Obamacare.
"We're going to be gifted with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers ten million more people without adding a single new doctor but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits will take affect by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese and financed by a country that is broke," she said at a Romney event in August.
But despite her excellent record at the hospital, Dr. Bellar's contract was not renewed.
Dr. Bellar told van Susteren she did not receive "any kind of adequate explanation" from hospital administrators. She said that while the hospital did meet with her, they refused to let her bring an attorney, leaving her to face "three people from the organization" alone.
"I firmly believe and I am of the opinion that failure to renew my contract is a direct result of my being an opponent of Obamacare," she said, adding that the viral video of her comment has resonated with the public.
When asked if the hospital objected to her run for public office, Dr. Bellar said "they never clarified either way," but said she was told that had she won, the hospital would have been glad to have a state senator on staff.
She told van Susteren that Republicans need to present real solutions and not be "spineless" or ashamed of being conservative.
"We're too weak to speak," she said. "And I have vocal cords."
Dr. Bellar did not rule out the possibility of legal action, telling van Susteren that "there are more things to be said on this matter."
Video of the interview can be seen here.
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