On the recordJuly 17, 2013
I was a practicing physician for 15 years, and I rise today to support the rule and support delaying the Affordable Care Act's employer and individual mandates. I support these delays because it's unfair to employees in my district who have suffered lost wages and lost hours at work because of these mandates: the 54 employees in the Greencastle, Indiana, school district who had their hours cut from full time to part time; the 150 employees in the Washington/Greene County school district who had their hours cut from full time to part time; the Spencer County employees who saw their hours cut from 40 hours a week to 28 hours a week; Wolfe's Auto Auction in Terre Haute, which I recently visited, that has had to cut many employees from full to part time. There are countless other middle-class Hoosiers who are suffering across Indiana because of these mandates. They're schoolbus drivers, teachers, hospital nurses, and county government employees. Hoosiers work hard every day to provide for their families. Rather than helping them, the government is keeping them from doing it. This administration would like everybody to believe the economy is growing and over 700,000 jobs were recently created. They failed to mention that 500,000 of those jobs were part time. It's hard to find a full-time job when the government penalizes your employer for giving you more than 30 hours of work.…
