Phil Gingrey: “The maintenance of effort provisions in Obamacare have not only been costly, but they have been a barrier to reforms.”

The President has consistently said that what is now reality would never happen, that if you like your health plan, you can keep it period.

All of these mandates, all this mandated coverage, comes at a tremendous price.

That is categorically untrue.

Let me first commend Chairman Upton and our colleague from Colorado, Ms. DeGette, for spearheading this bipartisan endeavor.