Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of H.R. 1101, the Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2017. Mr. Speaker, this week marks 7 years since ObamaCare was signed into law. We all remember the promises former President Obama and Washington Democrats made at the time. Families were promised that their healthcare costs would go down. They were promised more choices and more competition. Small businesses and their employees were promised greater access to affordable health care. But for 7 years, we have watched as all of those promises were broken. For 7 years, we have heard from families and small businesses across the country that have seen their healthcare costs skyrocket and their choices diminish. Members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee recently heard from Scott Bollenbacher, an Indiana small-business owner with 11 full-time employees. The company has been forced to switch healthcare plans twice now under ObamaCare, and their only viable option this year was a plan with a 78 percent premium increase. Mr. Bollenbacher is one of countless small-business owners struggling to make ends meet under a failed government takeover of health care. Because of ObamaCare, 300,000 small-business jobs have been destroyed, including nearly 8,000 in my home State of North Carolina.…”