[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16522]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM PRODUCTS

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, over the past few months, I have come to 
the House floor to sound the alarm regarding the emptiness of the 
promises the President made when he sold his health care law, promises 
such as: if you like your health care plan, you can keep it, and that 
premiums would drop by $2,500. Those promises, Mr. Speaker, are now on 
the ash heap of history.
  Here is what I am hearing from my district: a woman from Allegheny 
County recently showed me the letter she got from her insurance 
company. The letter begins, ``This is to inform you that we will 
discontinue your health care plan on December 31, 2013.''
  A father in the north hills of Pittsburgh tells me his family's 
coverage is also being terminated next year.
  Another woman from the north hills wrote to tell me that she gets 
insurance through her employer, a small business, but that her share of 
the premiums are tripling.
  When a product comes with a promise that is broken, you take it back 
and look for a new product. The Empowering Patients First Act and the 
American Health Care Reform Act are just some examples of possible new 
health care reform products that we can look at. There are solutions 
that empower consumers and not Washington elites, and they are a good 
place to start.

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