On the recordJune 21, 2010
I want to speak briefly today about some broken promises related to the health care bill, specifically, President Obama's promise that if Americans liked their current coverage, they would be able to keep it. Remember that promise. Last June, the President promised on national television that: Government is not going to make you change plans under health reform. In his September address to Congress, he reassured Americans: If you have health insurance through your job, nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. Well, those two statements are true as far as they go. The law does not require. The problem is, everything written into the law will, nevertheless, result in that happening. What we are seeing is new developments every week that prove that what we had said would happen will, in fact, happen. Many Americans are not going to be able to keep the coverage they have, even though they like it.
