[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MORE BROKEN PROMISES

  (Mr. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, American families are watching the train 
wreck of the President's health care reform law coming down the track 
at them each and every day.
  Promises were made by the President and by supporters of the law that 
if you like your plan, you can keep it. Promises were made that family 
plans would cost $2,500 a year less under ObamaCare. Those promises 
just weren't true.
  David in Carroll County wrote me just this morning to let me know 
what his family is going through with their health insurance. David is 
self-employed and is married with three children. He likes his family 
plan. He doesn't think it is substandard in any way, but his family 
just got a cancelation notice.
  Mr. Speaker, they won't get to keep the plan they like. His new plan, 
which the Federal Government says that they have to buy, will cost $400 
more per month, an increase of almost $5,000 more per year, not a 
decrease as the President promised.
  David's family is just a hardworking, middle class family trying to 
make ends meet. Mr. Speaker, David and his family deserve better than 
broken promises.

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