On the recordOctober 31, 2013
I am so pleased to be on the floor with some very good news out of California and how ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act, is working in our great State. People are phoning. People are going online. People are talking with insurance agencies, with health insurance companies. They are getting health care coverage, some for the very first time, and for many for the first time it is affordable; all good policies--good policies that will be there when they are needed. We know a small percentage of people, as the President addressed yesterday, are being told their old policies are not going to be offered to them anymore, but all of those folks know they can get better policies. They can't be turned away. There will be competition for their business. Many of them will get subsidies. So at the end of the day, this health care story, although quite bumpy, as we know the prescription drug launch was years ago--we know it is bumpy, and we are angry on both sides of the aisle that it is bumpy--but at the end of the day, I think it is going to be good. I wish to read some of the comments made by people who have logged in to ``Covered California,'' which is coveredCA.com. Here is one who just got an affordable health care policy: Thank you so much, President Obama! And everyone who works there. This was soooo much easier than I thought it would be! I am soooo grateful to get medical insurance! Thank you! Another: Great phone support, thank you.…
