WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC-02) released the following statement from her office in Washington:

"Three years after Obamacare was signed into law, it went live this morning with immediate glitches and problems throughout the system. For months, HHS, the IRS, CMS and all other elements of the federal bureaucracy have promised in hearings, interviews and testimony that they were certain that the massive program would be ready on October 1st. Yet here we are, witnessing failure on day one. This law was never ready for primetime and never will be."

"Just last week we discovered that health insurance rates are expected to triple for women and quadruple for men in North Carolina once this law goes into effect. Then on Thursday, we were informed that virtual monopolies are now being created in North Carolina to sell this poison pill to our people. We were promised lower costs and more competition. Yet Obamacare is doing the exact opposite. The whole point of an online marketplace was to provide options, but as we are seeing, this couldn't be further from the truth."

The Daily Caller reported on Congresswoman Ellmers' investigation of the monopolies being created by Obamacare in North Carolina on Thursday. CNBC's Larry Kudlow reported on it Friday.

Click here to read the Daily Caller article andhere to watch the report on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report".