[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15000]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SIGNING UP FOR OBAMACARE

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, we all know that for a full day now we've 
been hearing all kinds of anecdotes about what may or may not have 
taken place on yesterday as people were signing up for the first time 
for the Affordable Care Act.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to share with you a little bit of 
information that comes from Los Angeles, California:
  ``It took 3 hours, but Andrew Stryker managed to be among the first 
people to purchase health insurance through ObamaCare's new insurance 
markets. Stryker is 34 years old and lives in Los Angeles, where he now 
does freelance work.'' He pays premiums of $600 to keep his COBRA plan 
that he had on his job, which he left 4 years ago. He is diabetic and 
has been denied insurance because of a preexisting condition. Mr. 
Stryker says, although it took him 3 hours, this plan is now saving him 
over $6,000 a year. And in his words, ``For that, I would have waited 
all day.''
  A lot of us would.

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