[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. MEADOWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEADOWS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3350, the 
Keep Your Health Plan Act. President Obama's promise, if you like your 
health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, is 
ringing hollow with some 473,000 North Carolinians whose policies have 
been canceled.
  One of those families is Leon and Liz Russell, small business owners 
in Waynesville, North Carolina. The Russells were notified that their 
$653-a-month insurance premium was going to go to $1,322 in 2014. This 
is a yearly increase of over $8,000. They said to me:

       We cannot afford to pay that. Period. What are we expected 
     to do?

  For families like the Russells, the House will vote tomorrow on the 
Keep Your Health Plan Act which will allow millions of Americans to 
keep their policies without penalty.
  Today President Obama announced his intentions to allow insurers to 
keep offering canceled plans, but a 1-year delay does not make good on 
his promise. The President needs to be working with Congress to fix his 
flawed law. Mr. Speaker, we still have a broken Web site, and we still 
have broken promises.

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