On the recordOctober 23, 2013
Mr. Speaker, President Obama made some big promises with regard to ObamaCare: if you like your doctor, you can keep them; same if you are happy with your insurance. Somehow, even with new taxes and thousands of pages of regulations, government would be able to mandate universal coverage and simultaneously save everyone money. That is not panning out in America. North Carolinians tell me their policies are being canceled and their prices are set to double. Experts are even advising some Americans to find a way to lower their incomes to help pay for ObamaCare. For one family in California, if they don't find a way to earn $2,000 less, they will pay $15,000 for health care. If they make less money, they pay just over $1,000. It is easy to blame technical glitches for ObamaCare's problems. It is harder to own up to the costly consequences of forcing a one-size- fits-all health care prescription onto one-sixth of the American economy. As President Obama presses forward with ObamaCare, a broken Web site is certainly the least of his problems. ____________________
