[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17072-17073]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

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  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, the Americans we are discussing today did 
nothing wrong. They purchased insurance before any Federal mandate 
ordered them to. Now they are losing their insurance.
  Katie Rupert is a constituent of mine. At 33, she was diagnosed with 
breast cancer, a sickness that later spread to her brain. She started 
radiation and travels to Houston to see her oncology specialist. Today, 
she is a Stage IV cancer survivor and doing well, but she knows that 
this will not last forever.
  Katie had good coverage through her husband's workplace but is losing 
it because of ObamaCare. What is worse, she has been told that her 
doctors are not covered by her options on the ObamaCare exchanges. She 
is a wife, a mother, an inspiration, and now she is another example of 
this law's collateral damage. That is the impact of ObamaCare.
  We can do better. We have to do better. We owe Katie and others like 
her at least that much.

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