Xavier Becerra: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. In the past month, 500,000 Americans have secured affordable health insurance. They…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. In the past month, 500,000 Americans have secured affordable health insurance. They are people that include folks in my State of California like Erin Kotecki Vest, who said the old plan she had had all sorts of deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. At the end of the day, what does she say after going on Covered California's marketplace exchange? She will be saving $18,900 per year by having shopped on the exchange under the Affordable Care Act. Paulo Dawud said he passed on an employer-based insurance policy that would have cost him $504 a month. He got on Covered California's Web site. He picked Kaiser. He now qualifies for a plan that charges $176 a month. Allen Pacela says his wife would not have insurance coverage at all as of January 1. They shopped on the Web site. They are now saving $8,000 a year for, as he says, ``a very much better plan.'' And Andrew Stryker from Los Angeles, California, 34 years old, lives in the city of Los Angeles, had to wait 3 hours to enroll--$6,000 savings. Let's improve this plan. Let's not destroy it. It is time to move forward and give Americans what they need--health security.”