[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16968]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HERE A GLITCH, THERE A GLITCH

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, ObamaCare has been nothing short of a 
painful government illness.
  On the first day Americans were due to enroll in their health care 
plan, they just couldn't do it. Errors flashed across their computer 
screens. It was a glitch here, a glitch there, everywhere a glitch, 
glitch, glitch.
  Out of the 500,000 Americans that should have been enrolled by now, 
only a handful were able to sign up thanks to technical incompetence, 
negligence, and those glitches.
  Americans will be penalized if they can't sign up, but how are you 
supposed to when the Web site doesn't work?
  Computer glitches should take minutes to fix, not weeks. These 
glitches are just a sign of things to come when the government takes 
over America's health. If the government can't even get the Web site 
right, how will government get health care right for the American 
people?
  ObamaCare has the compassion of the IRS, the competence of FEMA, and 
the efficiency of the post office.
  And that's just the way it is.

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