Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are now several months into the implementation of ObamaCare. The dust has settled. People from my State, Hoosiers, continue to see the reality of this law. Unfortunately what they see is not what they had hoped for. Earlier this month a news report revealed that health insurance rates will increase fairly dramatically in ``most States''--not just a few, not some but most. They said they are likely to rise in the coming year. Unfortunately, my State is one of those States. Unfortunately, ``likely to rise'' is an understatement. ``Dramatic increase'' would be a better phrase. The recent headline from the Indianapolis Business Journal reads, ``Indiana's ObamaCare rates for 2015 are all over the map.'' The first sentence of the article states, ``Initial 2015 premiums filed for the ObamaCare exchanges in Indiana range from as high as a 46-percent hike to as low as a 9-percent cut.'' The article continues: ``Those are the average changes in premiums proposed by the four health insurers that sold plans on the ObamaCare exchanges for 2014.'' One of those insurance companies providing health care to the State exchange we now learn is requesting rates that range from a 31-percent to a 59-percent increase in premiums.…”