[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16365-16366]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                BUREAUCRATS, NOT PATIENTS, ARE THE FOCUS

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, people want to be able to trust their 
President.
  When he said: If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, many 
Americans believed him. But keeping the insurance you liked was never a 
real possibility under ObamaCare.
  By design, the law requires every single new health plan and any 
existing plan that has been altered over the past 3 years to satisfy 
the one-size-fits-all requirements of Washington's central planners. 
That means millions of Americans are losing their current coverage, 
even though many liked their

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plans--plans that were tailored to work for them--that meet their 
specific needs and fit into their family budgets.
  Unsurprisingly, though, when placating bureaucrats is the rule, 
patients certainly can't be the focus.
  The President did say: If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, 
but he simultaneously championed a law that replaced custom care with 
cookie-cutter care.
  Millions are being booted from their health plans as a result.

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