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Louie Gohmert: There is a lot of talk about ObamaCare, as most people call it. It's just difficult after the hundreds of stories we're…

On the recordOctober 4, 2013
There is a lot of talk about ObamaCare, as most people call it. It's just difficult after the hundreds of stories we're getting from back home--not just me, but so many Members of Congress. It's just hard to call it the ``Affordable Care Act'' when we're hearing from so many that are saying, it's so very unaffordable. It was interesting, so many members of the media were chomping at the bit to find somebody who was able to get online and sign up for ObamaCare successfully. They grabbed a young man, Chad Henderson. He talked Thursday about his Internet experience, applying for insurance through the Affordable Care Act, through the Web site. So he was kind of a media icon. Gee, this young 21-year-old kid, this young man from Georgia got right on, and signed up for ObamaCare. Then we find the rest of the story. So many were using his story. Oh, Chad Henderson. He got signed up very easily. But here's a story by Kate Harrison today, on Friday, that says: A day after a 21-year-old Flintstone, Georgia, man became the subject of national media attention--including a front page Times Free Press story--for being one of the first Americans to actually get through ObamaCare's glitchy Web site and enroll for coverage, he acknowledged that he hadn't completed that process.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Oct 4, 2013

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