[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17071-17072]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share some powerful stories 
that Kentuckians have shared with me regarding their experiences with 
ObamaCare.
  Jim Holloway of Glasgow was notified that his small business 
insurance plan will be canceled. Here is the letter:

       Dear James Holloway, II, you will be moving to a health 
     care reform, also called the Affordable Care Act compliant 
     plan.

  Mr. Holloway told me, ``The plan I had was not a junk plan. I liked 
my plan.'' Unfortunately, he will not be able to keep that plan.
  Tanya Veitschegger of Bowling Green also received a cancellation 
notice of her plan. After calling her insurance agent, she learned that 
a similar plan to what she and her husband had was available at a cost 
of $490 more a month.
  Vince Berta, also of Bowling Green, said that by being forced to go 
onto the exchange, his family's insurance rate will jump from $375 a 
month to $849 a month. He asks a fair question: ``An over 100 percent 
increase--what part of this is affordable?''

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  The fact is that President Obama repeatedly promised Americans that 
if they liked their plan they could keep it. I heard over and over from 
Kentuckians that is not the case.

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