[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1657]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           H.R. 3362, THE EXCHANGE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT

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                            HON. GENE GREEN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 15, 2014

  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my 
opposition to H.R. 3362, the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, which 
is yet another effort to undermine the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act.
  The Exchange Information Disclosure Act requires weekly reporting by 
the Department of Health and Human Services on health insurance 
enrollments through HealthCare.gov and any and all problems consumers 
experience when using the website.
  While I support strong congressional oversight through sufficient 
reporting and transparency, the reporting required by this bill is 
overly burdensome, unfunded, and in excess of requirements for other 
public or private programs. And it includes another attack on 
navigators charged with enrolling uninsured and underinsured Americans 
in the new exchanges.
  If this bill was a sincere effort to improve or build upon the 
landmark health care reform law, then it should have gone through the 
committee process. Instead, it was crafted to further bog down HHS and 
make the implementation of the ACA as difficult as possible.
  Congress should be using our time to work on legislation to improve 
the historic law so that millions of Americans can take full advantage 
of affordable coverage and the landmark reforms and protections 
included in the ACA, rather than another attempt to delay and derail 
health care reform.

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