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On the recordOctober 2, 2013
We all know that for a full day now we've been hearing all kinds of anecdotes about what may or may not have taken place on yesterday as people were signing up for the first time for the Affordable Care Act. Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to share with you a little bit of information that comes from Los Angeles, California: ``It took 3 hours, but Andrew Stryker managed to be among the first people to purchase health insurance through ObamaCare's new insurance markets. Stryker is 34 years old and lives in Los Angeles, where he now does freelance work.'' He pays premiums of $600 to keep his COBRA plan that he had on his job, which he left 4 years ago. He is diabetic and has been denied insurance because of a preexisting condition. Mr. Stryker says, although it took him 3 hours, this plan is now saving him over $6,000 a year. And in his words, ``For that, I would have waited all day.'' A lot of us would. ____________________
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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