[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          OBAMACARE IS FAILING

  (Mr. DeSANTIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, no single piece of legislation rests so 
squarely on a foundation of broken promises as the 2010 health care law 
known as ObamaCare. We were told that it would lower insurance rates to 
the tune of $2,500 per family, but we know not only is it not lowering 
rates; it's causing rates to spike 10 percent, 20 percent, even 30, 40 
percent in some States.
  We were told it was going to be cost effective, but now we know that 
the costs were purposely understated to mask the true cost of this 
nearly $2 trillion bill.
  We were told if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. We now 
know the question is not whether millions of Americans will lose their 
current plans, but how many millions of Americans will lose their 
current plans. This is what you get when you pass a 2,000-page bill 
before reading it.
  Oh, and do you want the IRS to be involved with your health care?
  ObamaCare is failing, and the American people are paying the price 
for this failure. Let's turn the page on ObamaCare and enact true 
patient-centered reform that benefits people, not bureaucrats.

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