[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17064]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       KEEP YOUR HEALTH PLAN ACT

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I am a cosponsor of the Keep Your Health 
Plan Act.
  We had promises to folks that they could keep their health plan and 
keep their doctors. Obviously, those promises are not being kept. A lot 
of Americans are finding out this hard news. One of them is Elizabeth 
Hoffman, this pretty young lady, and her son, from Hutto, Texas, a 
small town in my district.
  Elizabeth is a single mother with a young son. She does not get 
insurance through her employer. She got her insurance through Humana at 
$167 a month, with a $2,000 deductible. It was the plan she liked.
  She has now lost her plan. Humana has canceled that plan. The plan 
most similar to the one she has now costs $404 a month, with a $2,500 
deductible. Needless to say, she is not happy. She is not happy with 
the Obama plan, and she is not happy with the exchange and is worried 
about the pharmacy she is going to go to. She is not likely to have 
insurance next year.

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