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




                            OBAMACARE IMPACT

  (Mr. SOUTHERLAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUTHERLAND. Mr. Speaker, the problems with this health care law 
won't be cured with political fixes because this isn't about politics. 
This is about real people. People like Paul and Victoria Morson of 
Panama City, Florida, my hometown.
  The Morsons are health care providers themselves. By day, they 
provide care to infants and toddlers struggling with catastrophic 
injuries, blindness, autism, and other developmental delays. At night, 
they run a medical courier service, delivering cancer treatments and 
medications.
  Paul and Victoria each received this letter from Florida Blue, 
informing them that their coverage was being canceled at the end of 
this year. Their plans failed to meet the law's requirements for 
maternity and newborn care and pediatric dental care, despite the fact 
that the Morsons are in their sixties and have no children.
  They were informed their new plans would increase their combined 
premiums from $520 to $1,260 per month. Now Paul and Victoria are 
trying to figure out how to keep alive a medical practice that has 
already been reduced from a 10-county area to just one.
  That is a real-world impact and a real-world example on this 
misguided law, and that is why, if you like your plan and you were 
promised that you could keep your plan, you should be able to keep your 
plan.

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