[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14399-14400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. LUETKEMEYER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, today I come to the House floor to 
speak on an issue that is on the minds of many of my constituents and 
Americans across the country, and that is ObamaCare.
  Enrollment is set to begin in only 5 short days, yet there is far too 
much confusion about how hardworking Americans will purchase their 
health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. One constituent from 
Missouri's Third District recently contacted my office in a panic about 
how ObamaCare is going to impact her personally as well as her small 
business. She has reached out to her accountant, insurance broker, and 
health care provider, and guess what, Mr. Speaker? Nobody has a clue 
how this is all going to play out.
  Unlike the Federal Government, she is forced to balance both her 
family's and her business' budget. But when she has no idea how much 
health insurance

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is going to cost, she has a very large hole in both her budgets that 
makes it nearly impossible to plan for other things--whether it's new 
prescription glasses for her child to see the board at school or hiring 
a new employee for her small business she hopes to expand.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not an isolated incident. I have received 
hundreds of emails and phone calls expressing real fears from folks 
about ObamaCare. From what I'm hearing and seeing firsthand, the 
Affordable Care Act is neither affordable nor caring.

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