Tom Harkin: “I have in front of me the Federal Register of Thursday, June 17, 2010. What we are dealing with today are grandfathered…”

“I have in front of me the Federal Register of Thursday, June 17, 2010. What we are dealing with today are grandfathered plans, right? The resolution offered by the Senator from Wyoming has to do with what is a grandfathered plan and the regulation of the grandfathered plan. Well, I looked at the rules in the Register. It is one page and not even a half, about a page and one-third--well, not actually even a page and a third, a little over a page, a page and a third. I have it right here. Page 34,568 and page 34,569: Maintenance of Grandfather Status. That is what it is, and that takes into account all of the things to which the Senator from Wyoming referred. It is a page and a quarter, right there. But getting to the crux of it, we provided in the health reform bill, which is now law, that if you had a plan you liked, you could keep it. If that plan was in effect prior to April of this year, you can keep it. It is called grandfathering.”