[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16503]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           OBAMACARE WEB SITE

  (Mr. LANKFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Speaker, the ObamaCare Web site has been a 
nuisance. People spend hours of wasted time trying to get on it, trying 
to get information they cannot get information on.
  This has moved far beyond just a nuisance of trying to get on a Web 
site. Now people are discovering the new cost increases that are 
happening, and over a million people have already received a 
cancelation notice for their insurance.
  Let me just give you a couple of those from my district:
  The Evans Law Firm has 17 people involved in their small law firm. 
That firm received a cancelation notice, not because their insurance 
was not up to the standards that the President has set, but because it 
grouped together with other policies, and now that is no longer going 
to be available to them, so they have to go out on the market. The 
cheapest they have found so far is a 25 percent increase to them.
  Another business owner has notified me they are going to pay a 13.5 
percent increase in their insurance next year because their current 
insurance doesn't have pediatric care in it. None of the employees 
there have children, so of course they haven't had insurance for 
pediatric care. This would be the equivalent of having a car in your 
driveway and waking up the next morning and some government official 
has switched the car to a better car and you get the bill for the more 
expensive car because they didn't like your car.
  This does not help the families at home.

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