{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://roby.house.gov/roby-news/alabamian-tells-her-family%E2%80%99s-obamacare-horror-story-fox-news", "Alabamian tells her family\u2019s ObamaCare horror story on Fox News", "2013-11-12", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Martha Roby", "R000591", "roby.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Allyson Strickland, a homeschooling mother of four whose husband works in the construction industry, appeared Friday on Fox News\u2019 \u201cOn the Record with Greta Van Sustren\u201d program sharing that her family\u2019s premiums have more than doubled from $440 to $920 because of plan changes forced by ObamaCare. \u201cWe\u2019re not really sure right now what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d Strickland told Van Sustren. \u201cThe economic situation in our family\u2019s finances has been extremely tight over the past year and insurance just wasn\u2019t something I thought I would be concerned with. But now it has definitely become an issue to our family and we\u2019re looking at different options \u2014 but frankly we don\u2019t have very many options.\u201d Strickland said they were prepared to receive a slight increase under ObamaCare, but were shocked when they received word from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama that their premiums were doubling. Strickland was among the first to respond to a request by Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, for stories illustrating personal difficulties related to health care law changes. Rep. Roby said responses continue to pour in from Alabamians experiencing insurance plan cancellations and rate hikes, some of which she plans to highlight this week as legislative remedies to the issue gain traction. \u201cI appreciate Allyson and all the others who have contacted my office sharing personal stories about how ObamaCare is affecting their families,\u201d Rep. Roby said. \u201cSpecific examples of how this law is harming people in a real way allow me to be a more powerful voice for positive change in Congress. I encourage anyone who hasn\u2019t shared their story to go online and submit it. \u201cI believe a majority of Republicans and Democrats support commonsense changes to the law, but we are fighting an uphill battle because this is President Obama\u2019s signature law,\u201d Roby continued. \u201cThe more real-world stories like Allyson\u2019s we can share, the better we can demonstrate on a national level the compelling need to offer Americans relief from this law.\u201d Despite President Obama\u2019s well-publicized promise of \u201cif you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,\u201d thousands in Alabama and millions across the country are facing health insurance cancellations or skyrocketing costs. Rep. Roby is co-sponsoring the \u201cKeep Your Health Plan Act,\u201d which would ensure individual policy holders who like their healthcare plans are truly allowed to keep them. Similar proposals are surfacing in the Senate, and former President Bill Clinton said in a recent interview that \u201ceven if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.\u201d Rep. Roby on Thursday debuted an online form to make it easy for constituents to share their personal stories. Additionally, individuals are invited to share their ObamaCare stories with Rep. Roby on Facebook orTwitter, by email, or by calling Rep. Roby\u2019s Washington, D.C. office at 202-225-2901.\nTo read this article on the publication's website, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://roby.house.gov/roby-news/alabamian-tells-her-family%E2%80%99s-obamacare-horror-story-fox-news"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3106311671435833, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}