Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding and for bringing this bill to the floor. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as the voice of at least 150,000 Oregonians who have already received their cancelation notices. They have been told that the policy they liked, that they wanted to keep, they cannot have any longer. I was out in my district for 8 straight days last week--36 meetings, 12 counties, 2,476 miles on the road, from morning to late at night. And I am going to tell you there are people like Chuck and Jan in Medford who had gone into retirement, had health insurance, and got a notice that their plan has been canceled. From Mitchell to Bend to Enterprise to Medford--all over--not only are their plans being canceled, the replacements are coming back with deductibles that are $12,000 to $15,000, when they were paying a couple thousand dollars. The premiums are going up--in some cases, double or more. Some of them may get a subsidy, a lot of them won't, and now they don't have the plan they were promised that they could keep. And another thing that is insidious that is going on below the surface, in meeting after meeting, hours are being cut back. People are losing their jobs. They are getting less take-home pay because of ObamaCare. This is a problem all across America. The promise that you could keep your plan was never to be kept, and they knew it. And they continued to say it, and it wasn't true.…”