[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            OBAMACARE--HOW IT AFFECTS A SINGLE MOM IN TEXAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this week I got a call from a 
concerned father in Crosby, Texas. His daughter is a single working mom 
with 3 young children ages 3 through 13. She recently received bad news 
from her health insurance provider. She and her children will be 
dropped from their current plan.
  The new plan required under ObamaCare had a 40 percent more expensive 
premium. As a result, she and her children had to move out of their 
home and in with their father and mother. She no longer can afford to 
make it on her own.
  The father said: ``Texans are suffering. It hurts us. She got a 40 
percent increase in her premium payments while she's already struggling 
to make ends meet. Her policy was great before, but now it's gone.''
  Mr. Speaker, this single working mom in Texas is being punished under 
ObamaCare. The President sold ObamaCare to the American people on the 
false promise that if they liked their plan they could keep it. Now, 
this single mother and her children and others are learning the hard 
way that this was just one more Washington lie.
  And that's just the way it is.

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