Rand Paul: “As a physician and an eye surgeon, I have seen ObamaCare up close, and it is not working for Americans. If you look…”

“As a physician and an eye surgeon, I have seen ObamaCare up close, and it is not working for Americans. If you look across the country and say ``Is it working?'' you find that ObamaCare premiums have doubled for those in the individual marketplace in just a few short years. You find that the ObamaCare insurance mandates have caused 4.7 million people to lose the insurance they chose. If you like your doctor, you can keep him or her--that was the promise, and it was a lie. Some 4.7 million people were told that they couldn't choose the insurance they want and couldn't choose their doctor. It is estimated that there are 800,000 fewer jobs because of ObamaCare. How does that happen? Well, if you work 32 hours a week and your employer has to provide insurance at 30 hours, guess what happens. Some people get moved to 28 hours. You add up all those hours, and millions of people are working fewer hours. Who are the people who got shafted by ObamaCare? Often, working-class people. In my State, there are 25,000 people who pay a fine because they can't afford ObamaCare. These 25,000 people make less than $25,000 a year. They are our working class. ObamaCare punishes them and says: You have to pay a fine. They say: I wish I had insurance, but ObamaCare added all these mandates, things that I can't afford. Sure, everybody wants to have everything under the Sun covered by their insurance, but when you mandate that, you elevate the price of insurance. So what has happened?…”