[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          OBAMACARE EXCHANGES

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, last week, on the front page of The Wall 
Street Journal, we read that the implementation of ObamaCare exchanges 
is falling behind schedule.
  According to the GAO, both State and Federal exchanges have major 
work to complete before the October 1 start of open season. The 
administration has predicted some ``glitches and bumps.''
  Would failure to open the exchanges on time be a bump?
  Is the fact that some small business exchanges have only a single 
participant a glitch?
  Millions of Americans will be required by the Federal Government to 
purchase insurance on these exchanges, but they're shaping up to be a 
train wreck.
  GAO tells us that the 17 States running small business exchanges were 
late on an average of 44 percent of activities that should have been 
complete in March.
  The signals are flashing, the sirens are wailing, but we keep rolling 
on towards ObamaCare implementation. The only way we can prevent the 
disaster is by putting a stop to a law that is failing on nearly every 
count.

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