Toccoa Resident Attending Presidential Address

9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins (R-Ga.) will attend President Donald Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress with a guest from Toccoa, Georgia.

Members of Congress each receive one guest ticket to the president’s annual speech.
Congressman Collins has invited his constituent, Brittany Ivey, to the joint session.

According to Collins, Ivey and her husband have struggled under the consequences of the Affordable Care Act.

He said Ivey was working part-time at a small business that provided her family with health insurance until the effects of Obamacare on the insurance market raised her premiums sharply.

Collins went on to say this drove the Ivey family into the individual market, where a mid-level plan took 65% of her monthly gross income, even after a small federal subsidy.
“There’s no better occasion than the president’s annual address to Congress to bring attention to the victims of the Affordable Care Act and the urgency of repealing Obamacare. Northeast Georgia is full of individuals who work tirelessly to care for their families, and Mrs. Ivey’s story illustrates the destruction wrought by the failed health care law,” said Collins.
President Trump is scheduled to address members of the House of Representatives and the Senate at 9:00 p.m. tonight.