On September 12, 2013 Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. was granted permission to address the U.S. House of Representative for one minute regarding certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the effect it is having on citizens in his district and across the state of Tennessee.
“Madam Speaker, all over this country many thousands are not being hired because of the so-called Affordable Care Act, which is really unaffordable. Many thousands more are seeing their hours cut so they do not go over the 30-hour-per-week threshold. Someone said the new normal is now two 20-hour-a-week jobs.”
Now the State of Tennessee has had to notify 16,000 Tennesseans they can no longer have coverage under CoverTN, a low-cost health care plan for small businesses and the self-employed. The plan is being abolished because it does not meet all the bureaucratic requirements of ObamaCare. Senator Lamar Alexander said: The new health care law has destroyed an innovative State health insurance plan that is helping 16,000 Tennesseans afford health care coverage”, he said.
“When the President was selling ObamaCare to Americans, he said again and again that people who had insurance they liked could keep it. Despite the President’s promises, Tennesseeans enrolled with CoverTN are among the thousands of Americans who are being forced to buy new, more expensive plans with much higher premiums because of the “Unaffordable Care Act”, Rep. Duncan said (source: Congressional Record, September 12, 2013).
Rep. Duncan serves on the following committees, subcommittees, and caucuses in the House of Representatives:
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Vice Chairman)
Subcommittee on Aviation (Former Chairman)
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (Former Chairman)
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation & Regulatory Affairs
Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations
Major Caucuses
Congressional Friends of Scotland Caucus (Co-Chairman)
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus