Today marks the legal deadline of registration for the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as ObamaCare. On March 12, 2014, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before a House Ways and Means Committee. When asked, are you going to delay enrollment beyond March 31, she definitively answered, no, sir. Well, Madam Speaker, April Fools. Millions of Americans are finding ObamaCare today to be a very expensive and harmful April Fools' prank. One of those individuals is Sondra, a constituent from Clinton County, located in the Fifth District of Pennsylvania. Sondra emailed the following on Friday: I was just on the marketplace, and I can't believe the prices. I also am wrong about ObamaCare including eye and dental. I see that it does not. I thought this was supposed to be better than what I would find privately. Not to my surprise. Even with the tax credits, it is going to cost us just as much. It seems they doubled the price on there to eat up the tax credits. This whole thing has us so upset. We only make between $30,000-$40,000 a year, and our health insurance is going to go from $320 a month for both of us to doubling, at the least. We will pay more and get less coverage and pay way more out of pocket. How does our President think this is helping us, the working poor? This is a class we never hear anyone talk about. We hear about the poor, middle class, and the wealthy, but not the working poor.…
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