Political Quotes

“I rise today to talk about what is happening in my home State of New Hampshire as a result of ObamaCare. When I ran for the Senate in 2010, one of the reasons I decided to do so is because when I saw ObamaCare had been passed, I worried about what was going to happen with this law. We saw it could offer less competition, limit peoples' choices, limit their choices on who would be their physician, and also change their insurance policies and raise costs in a health care system that costs too much to begin with. Sadly, we are now seeing all of these fears come true with ObamaCare. Unfortunately, I have seen it firsthand in my home State of New Hampshire. In fact, I have heard it from my constituents, whether it is at a townhall, whether it is visiting with a small business, whether it is listening to someone who is having their hours cut because their employer is trying to meet a 29-hour requirement. In fact, right now in New Hampshire there is only one insurer that was approved to offer health policies on New Hampshire's ObamaCare exchange. In order to prevent premiums from skyrocketing--and by the way, people in New Hampshire will be paying higher than the national average for premiums under ObamaCare. But to prevent them from skyrocketing even further, this lone New Hampshire insurer has been essentially forced to limit its network of providers to exclude 10 of our 26 hospitals. What does that mean for the people of New Hampshire?…”