[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             ANOTHER GLITCH

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the Hill newspaper recently reported that 
there's another prominent glitch in last year's health care law. 
Millions of families could struggle to purchase insurance because of 
the sloppy manner in which the bill was written.
  The law mandates that every individual pay insurance. If the 
insurance offered by an employer is deemed affordable by the 
government, then an employee must purchase it. However, the Federal 
Government will only look at the individual plans offered by 
companies--not the family plans. While the plan for an individual may 
be affordable, the family plan could be significantly more expensive.
  Correcting this mistake in the law would mean at least $50 billion 
more per year in government subsidies. The President told the American 
people that the new health care law would not increase the deficit. Now 
we find yet another example of how this bill will cost both American 
families and the Federal Government far more than what was claimed.
  Clearly, we need full repeal before this law full of glitches and 
mandates is fully implemented, bankrupting families and the government.

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