[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17058]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. McCARTHY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY of California. Mr. Speaker, the President's announcement 
today does little to change the need for Congress to act.
  The President's promise of ``if you like your plan, you can keep 
it,'' is an empty promise. Sadly, 1 million Californians are now 
finding out firsthand in the form of a letter that their current plan 
has been canceled.
  One of those 1 million Californians happens to be a constituent of 
mine from Bakersfield, California. He wrote me recently to tell me how 
ObamaCare has failed him. He writes:

       Our youngest son was born with a rare genetic condition 
     that results in severe mental retardation, an inability to 
     walk or talk, and a need to be tube-fed directly into a 
     surgically implanted port in his stomach.
       Our longtime insurance carrier, Kaiser Permanente, has been 
     great about caring for our son, who requires 24-hour care and 
     special medication and formulas, all of which are very 
     expensive.
       Well, we just learned today that our previous coverage, not 
     cheap by any means, with a premium of nearly $1,000 a month, 
     is no longer available, and that a far inferior replacement 
     plan with less coverage and more out-of-pocket exposure will 
     cost $626 a month more, bringing our total to over $1,600 a 
     month.
       With the added out-of-pocket expenses, we anticipate for 
     his care in the coming year we expect to pay about $24,000 
     more for care next year than this year, all thanks to ACA.

  That is why we must take up and pass Keep Your Health Plan Act, and 
we ask the Democrats to join with us, to keep a pledge, to keep a 
promise, and stop increasing the cost for the constituents.

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