[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mrs. ELLMERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. ELLMERS. Mr. Speaker, today is day 10 of ObamaCare exchanges 
being up, or supposedly being up. We now know the problems with the 
exchanges are not just due to high traffic; rather, technology experts 
have reported the real problems are with the actual structure and 
shoddy software used for the exchanges.
  The Hill reported on October 8, from one expert, James Turner, 
software engineer, ``It's probably the most broken release that I have 
ever seen.''
  I am hearing firsthand the frustrations from my constituents. One 
constituent said:

       The program freezes up when you try to enter your tax 
     filing status. You can't get past it. Same thing happens when 
     I try to apply over the phone. I've called every day since 
     October 1, all different times of the day, and have gotten 
     nothing but the runaround, one excuse after the other, that 
     their system is down.
       I've called during peak time. I've called during off-peak 
     time, but apparently there are no on-peak hours. If I can't 
     get qualified for a subsidy before January 1, we will have to 
     let our insurance lapse.

  With that, Mr. Speaker, I say, this is a defective exchange, and it 
is only part of the problem.

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