[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 170 (Tuesday, December 3, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7403]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         JULIA'S STORY PROVES PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EMPTY PROMISES

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I was saddened and angered by a recent 
email I received from a distraught constituent. Julia from Gurnee, 
Illinois, told me she is now one of the millions whose health insurance 
will be canceled because of ObamaCare. Buying a comparable plan means 
her out-of-pocket expenses will jump more than $5,200 a year. Worse, 
the smaller network excludes her current doctor--the doctor she has 
seen for 33 years. Only doubling her premiums would allow her to keep 
the doctor who has known and cared for her for most of her adult life.
  The President promised middle class families would pay $2,500 less in 
annual health care costs under ObamaCare. He promised they would be 
able to keep their insurance plans and their doctors. Julia's story 
proves again how empty those promises were.
  The Senate and the President must act, as the House has, to allow all 
Americans to keep their doctors. Americans can't afford more broken 
promises.

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