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




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tell the 
stories of real people in Arkansas' Second Congressional District who 
are being hurt by ObamaCare.
  Many of them have seen their work hours reduced. Others are seeing 
their premiums double, triple, and quadruple. Many are losing the 
health insurance plans they would like to keep and wondering why 
President Obama told them repeatedly that that would never happen.
  One single mom in Little Rock told me that her current health 
insurance plan will be canceled at the end of the year in just 6 weeks. 
She is worried this will affect her daughter who is about to start 
graduate school.
  Terry and his wife in Rose Bud, Arkansas, will see their premium rise 
from $380 to more than $1,000 per month. That is not affordable.
  Daniel Hanley, here with his horse, a vet in Little Rock, received 
notification that his health insurance plan was being canceled because 
of ObamaCare. The cancellation notice says:

       ObamaCare will ultimately prevent us from offering 
     competitive medical insurance . . . as a result, we 
     anticipate that your medical insurance policy will be ending 
     effective midnight December 31, 2013.

  It is clear that ObamaCare is a broken law, and its broken Web site 
is only the beginning. ObamaCare must be repealed so we can pass real 
patient-centered health care reform.

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