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




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, I want you to meet Andrew Parks, a 
hardworking young man from Bossier City, Louisiana, who has been 
hammered twice by ObamaCare. Earlier this year, his employer did what 
so many other businesses were forced to do by the ObamaCare employer 
mandate. They reduced Andrew's hours from a nearly 40-hour work week to 
26 hours a week. He suffered a substantial loss in pay.
  Then, the other shoe dropped. His employer recently sent him this 
notice from a national firm that his health insurance would not meet 
ObamaCare standards and would be discontinued at the end of the year. 
His ordeal couldn't be much worse.
  Andrew has fought through a long-term illness and is a survivor of 
cancer, yet all he has asked for is the opportunity to work hard, to 
earn a living, and to keep his health insurance that he could afford. 
All ObamaCare has done is make those goals much more difficult to 
reach.
  ObamaCare is damaging our economy and harming individuals. It needs 
to be repealed and repealed now.

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