Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito is using a cheap trick to portray herself as siding with ordinary West Virginians on the issue of health care.

In fact, she’s siding with President Obama, the two corrupt political parties, and the health insurance corporations — and against the people of West Virginia.

Capito says that Americans continue to lose under Obamacare.

We agree.

She says that President Obama “is unfairly choosing to give businesses a free pass for a year and leave everyday Americans out in the cold.”

Agree.

Capito says that “families across the country are bracing for skyrocketing premiums.”

Agree.

“As long as ObamaCare remains law, Members of Congress should not receive exchange subsidies that are not provided to other Americans.”

Agree.

The Office of Personnel Management recently announced that it will provide a roughly 75 percent subsidy to Members of Congress for the purchase of a health insurance policy on the exchange.

Capito says she will not accept any health care subsidy made available to her and that she will legislation that would end this special treatment for Members of Congress.

She says that under her bill, Members of Congress would be treated like any other American who purchases an individual health insurance policy from the exchange.

But like President Obama, and almost all the Democrats and Republicans in Washington, Capito is a corporate captive of the health insurance industry.

She refuses to publicly acknowledge that the reason Obamacare is a disaster is because it keeps the insurance corporations in the game.

Instead, we should listen to the experience of most of the advanced Western industrialized countries and take the health insurance corporations out of the game.

And replace them with one single payer — a single payer system that covers every American, saves billions, and controls costs.

You go to a doctor.

You present your medical card.

No bills. No deductibles. No co-pays.

They swipe your card and that’s it.

Steve Roberts, president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, says he’s for a single payer system.

Why isn’t Capito?