[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the 1st of October when 
everyone in this country is going to have an opportunity to have health 
insurance, you know that there are some people who always like the 
status quo and they will say anything and do anything.
  The public is today being subjected to a propaganda campaign, the 
likes of which we have never seen in this country, against ObamaCare. 
Somehow it is the worst thing that has ever happened--the sky is going 
to fall, the world is going to end as we have known it, we should run 
and pray that in the latter days we will be saved.
  The fact is that ObamaCare is going to go into effect. The Supreme 
Court has looked at it and said it is constitutional. It is going to 
happen, folks.
  Will there be a few problems? Of course. You can't make the change 
and bring 30 million people into a program without having a problem 
here and there. Some of the complaints I hear on the other side are 
from people saying: Oh, it's going to do this, it's going to do that, 
it's going to do this, it's going to do that--but they didn't want to 
make one single change to make it better. We should just be calm.

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