[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        RISING MEDICAL PREMIUMS

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, 2 days ago The Washington Times 
published a chart from the Department of Health and Human Services 
showing that medical premiums went up 116 percent last year in Arizona, 
69 percent in Oklahoma, 63 percent in my home State of Tennessee, 59 
percent in Minnesota, 58 percent in Alaska, and on and on and on.
  President Obama promised, if we would pass his healthcare bill, that 
people could keep their plans, yet millions were forced onto ObamaCare 
because either their premiums went up too high or they lost their 
insurance altogether. He promised that the average family would save 
$2,500 a year. It has been almost impossible to find any family that 
has saved that $2,500.
  ObamaCare has been great: great in making healthcare unaffordable for 
almost every family in America.

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