[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17060-17061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. STIVERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Speaker, 3.5 million Americans have seen their 
health care plans canceled under the Affordable Care Act. I've 
personally heard from many constituents in my district who are seeing 
their health care plans canceled.
  For example, Anthony, who is a small business owner in my district, 
got these letters from his insurance plan saying that his plan would be 
canceled. As a result of that, there is a

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new plan that is available to him, but his monthly cost goes up by a 
little over 80 percent, and that is low compared to some.
  He is in the process of building a business, and he just hired his 
first employee. He told me he is scared to death to hire another 
employee because he just got his health insurance canceled and the cost 
doubled. It is just another story of how this law is hurting people and 
stifling job creation.
  I would like to ask all my colleagues to join me in supporting 
Chairman Upton's bill, the Keep Your Health Plan Act. I urge all of you 
to support it.

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