Burgess Statement on Delay of March 31 Enrollment Deadline
Washington,
March 26, 2014
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Jill Shatzen
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Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, today issued the following statement on the announcement by the Obama Administration that it will delay the health law’s open enrollment period:
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, today issued the following statement on the announcement by the Obama Administration that it will delay the health law’s open enrollment period:
“With yet another delay to the President’s signature health law, it’s like the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ over at the White House. This most recent delay – the 19th so far – proves what Republicans in the House have known for nearly five years: This law simply doesn’t work. The American people, many of whom have struggled for months to sign up for new plans with different doctors, higher premiums and unaffordable deductibles, now know it, too. “We should have known not to believe Secretary Sebelius when she said in December that the delays were over. Instead, these continued at a rapid pace. And yet just two weeks ago, an official at HHS said the administration lacked the ‘statutory authority’ to extend the enrollment period. But this is what we have come to expect with the Obama Administration: failed plans, empty promises and the bravado to continually act above the law.” ### |
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