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On the recordNovember 19, 2014
this past Saturday the open enrollment period for the Obama health care law opened in terms of the health care exchange. People who bought health insurance through healthcare.gov or through their State's exchange are finally allowed to see how much their insurance is going to cost next year. Things were pushed back beyond the election so people wouldn't be able to find out before the election what it was going to cost. So the Obama administration had all of this information for awhile, but they intentionally kept it secret until after election day. Now people get to see the prices, and many people across the country are absolutely in shock at the increased costs of the health care law. Millions of Americans are learning their health insurance is going to cost them a lot more. As a matter of fact, when the exchanges opened November 15, on the front page of the New York Times: ``Cost of Coverage Under Care Act Set to Increase.'' The article says: The Obama administration on Friday unveiled data showing that many Americans with health insurance bought under the Affordable Care Act could face substantial price increases next year--in some cases as much as 20 percent. Substantial price increases, 20 percent. For some people it is going to be even higher than that.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Nov 19, 2014

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