[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9305]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          REPEAL AND REPLACE THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recall a promise that we 
heard many times from this President and his administration: that under 
his health care law, if you like your insurance, you can keep it. 
Unfortunately, it seems that that promise was an empty one, and it will 
affect millions of Americans.
  A recent study from McKinsey & Company found that due to the law, at 
least 30 percent and perhaps as many as half of employers say that they 
will probably or definitely stop offering health care coverage to their 
employees after 2014. These are astounding statistics, and they reveal 
the fallacy we heard so frequently that if you like your plan, you can 
keep it.
  With every passing day we find out more and more what is in the 
President's health care law, and we find out that it hurts middle class 
families and small business owners, holding back our economy and 
killing job creation. This study is just one more reason for the House 
to redouble its efforts to repeal this law and replace it with 
legislation that will control the cost of health care while preserving 
individual freedoms.

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