[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18438]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         OBAMACARE IS A FAILURE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, does anyone across the fruited plain think 
that ObamaCare has been a success?
  Two of its major objectives were to bring down the costs of health 
care and increase the accessibility. Well, I ask you: Does anybody know 
anyone whose premium has decreased? My own 30-year-old daughter's 
premium went from $160 to $270. Indeed, our office is besieged with 
people whose premiums have skyrocketed.
  And then let's talk about accessibility. We hear 5.9 million policies 
have been canceled. And what do we hear from the Obama folks about the 
enrollment? 200,000 people or so. Of course, they keep the numbers kind 
of fuzzy. It is kind of like the unemployment numbers. You can't quite 
tell what they really are. But the reality is the cancelations are 
going about 100 miles an hour and enrollment is going at about a 20-
mile-an-hour pace.
  ObamaCare has been a failure. We need to defund it. We need to start 
all over again. We need to have health care that is patient-centered 
and market-based that does in fact bring down the cost of medicine and 
make it more affordable and more accessible to the American people.

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