[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17203-17204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE KEEP YOUR HEALTH PLAN ACT

  (Mr. REED asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the effort that we 
took today, this afternoon, in this Chamber with the passage of the 
Keep Your Health Plan Act. This act honors a promise that the President 
made to all of America, you can keep your health care if you want, and 
that is what we did today.
  I have been hearing, Madam Speaker, from constituents all over 
western New York, in my district. Two, in particular, I spoke to 
yesterday. One, from Ithaca, New York, after meeting with a navigator 
as a small business owner, trying to get health insurance because he 
received a cancellation notice that

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they were going to lose their insurance this January 1, told me that he 
decided to forego health insurance next year because of the cost 
associated with it.
  I talked to a young man from Bath, New York, who told me, My employer 
just notified me that my hours are going to be cut from 35 hours a week 
down to 25 hours, and he didn't even receive health insurance from that 
individual, but yet was told it was because of ObamaCare, and they 
would need to put him under a part-time status and lose those hours of 
work. Well, those hours of work are real dollars out of his pocket and 
his family's pocket.
  I applaud the bipartisan effort we did today. Thirty-nine Democrats 
joined us on this side to allow Americans to keep their health care.

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