The House Republican Conference is out with a new batch of ObamaCare stories they’ve received from around the country. “I am just an average American,” says one man whose premiums have gone up and policy will be canceled. “If I am hurting, how are the other millions doing?” These are the kind of anecdotes that were cited throughout yesterday’s Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, where according to POLITICO, “Republicans proved they’re a long way from running out of tough questions” to ask Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. If you were keeping score at home – and many surely were given how much is at stake – then Secretary Sebelius’s testimony was not exactly reassuring: “struggled to answer GOP lawmakers’ questions about policy cancellations that so far outpace enrollments — less than two weeks before the Dec. 23 deadline to sign up for coverage starting Jan. 1.” (POLITICO) “…could not tell lawmakers just how many pages of those regulations her department turned out. Pressed by a House panel on Wednesday, Sebelius balked, failing even to provide lawmakers with a rough estimate.” (National Review) “Asked by … Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., whether she would have delayed the site launch based […]
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