Obamacare

Floor Speech

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Ms. AYOTTE. Mr. President, I came to the floor yesterday to share many stories I am receiving from my constituents about them receiving cancellations of policies they wanted to keep and higher premiums under this law. Each story is very sad, and I feel badly for the people of my State and across this country who are suffering under this law. My constituents are pleading for relief. This is only one example.

A small business owner from Peterborough, NH, who voted for President Obama twice, told me that her family has a household income of $50,000 and their total health insurance will now cost over $19,000 for the year, which is more than their mortgage. Their local hospital isn't even on the exchange. In New Hampshire we only have one insurer on the exchange and 10 of our 26 hospitals have been excluded from that exchange.

This constituent from Peterborough wrote:

We are frustrated, afraid, and angry beyond words. ..... I urge a postponement of implementation of the Affordable Care Act while those with the power look harder at the average American and come up with a better plan. Life shouldn't be this hard.

Citizens from across New Hampshire and this country are crying out for relief. I hope the President will listen to them and call a timeout on this law so that we can come together and, rather than what was done in this Chamber--passing a partisan law--come together for bipartisan health care solutions.

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