[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we are just 3 days away from 
October 1--the day ObamaCare's health care exchanges are scheduled to 
open. Yet every constituent phone call, news headline, and report I 
come across further proves that this law is simply unaffordable and 
unworkable.

  On Thursday, at 11:22 a.m., President Obama said:

       Most of the stories you'll hear about how ObamaCare can't 
     work is just not based on facts . . . We're only 5 days from 
     finishing the job.

  Exactly 23 minutes later, I received a news alert, saying the White 
House postponed another portion of ObamaCare--the sixth unilateral 
delay.
  Worse, in my home State of Texas, premiums will increase by 53 
percent for young males and by 11 percent for females.
  Mr. Speaker, I have heard the personal stories, and I have seen the 
facts. ObamaCare is unaffordable and unworkable. Americans want, need, 
and deserve patient-centered reforms, not this ``government knows 
best'' health care law.

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