Tom Harkin: “more and more interesting figures are coming in to my health committee from around the country with regard to what is…”

“more and more interesting figures are coming in to my health committee from around the country with regard to what is happening around the Nation in terms of the health care marketplace, ObamaCare. The Republicans said it was going to be a failure and all that kind of stuff and how it was going to cost so much more money. I do not have it for every State. It is starting to come in. But I have it for some States and I want to give this body and people watching some of the initial figures that have come in on the savings to families. For example, in Alabama, $2,013 premiums for a family of four--median premium for month. This is just the average, take the median. In Alabama, for a family of four this year the premium was $557.58 a month. We now know the marketplace premium, family of four making $50,000 a year with the tax credits, their monthly premium will be $112 a month, a savings of $445.58 a month for a family of four making $50,000 year in the State of Alabama. In my State of Iowa, that median premium per month for a family of four this year was $549.58. The marketplace premium for that family of four at $50,000 with tax credits is now $103 a month, for a savings of $446.58 per month for that family of four. I was looking at Oklahoma. Their median premium this year was $684 a month. The marketplace premium for that family of four--again, $50,000 a year--with their tax credits, believe it or not, is $63 per month. They will go from $684 to $63 a month.…”