Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to discuss the many ways ObamaCare continues to negatively affect Americans. Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article exposing yet another problem with healthcare.gov. I would like to share a couple of excerpts from that article. The article begins: Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. Roughly 22,000 Americans have filed appeals with the government to try to get mistakes corrected. . . . Those mistakes, according to the Post, include being overcharged for health insurance, being directed to the wrong insurance program or being wrongly denied coverage. So what is the status of those appeals? The Post reports: For now, the appeals are sitting, untouched, inside a government computer. And an unknown number of consumers who are trying to get help through less formal means--by calling the health-care marketplace directly--are told that HealthCare.gov's computer system is not yet allowing federal workers to go into enrollment records and change them. . . . So let me summarize here. Mr. President, 22,000 Americans are either without insurance or are paying too much for insurance as a result of mistakes made by the Federal health exchange. Healthcare.gov contains no appeals process.…”