Fred Upton

Every day we are hearing from folks and families across the country about how the President's healthcare bill has wreaked havoc on their own healthcare coverage.

Every day we hear from individuals and families across the country about how Obamacare has wreaked havoc on their healthcare coverage.

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor is sadly another broken promise.

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The issue for this committee is how the FDA seeks to regulate in this space and what that means to patients and innovators both now and in the future.

I promise to work with the FDA to modernize these tools and regulations moving forward.

I commend the FDA for its recognition that it needed to act in this space.

Innovation in this sphere must be protected, which is why we included a provision in the law on the regulation of these technologies, including medical apps.

For months, administration witnesses have come before this committee and assured us that implementation of the president's healthcare law was 'on track,' and that HealthCare.gov would be ready for the October 1 launch.

The administration was on track, on track for disaster, but stubbornly they stayed the course.

But why not give the straight story to the Congress and the public, because back on April 18, Secretary Sebelius testified in this very room, we have the Federal hub on track and on time.

We just have two speakers as well, myself and Mrs. Ellmers. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Ellmers).

I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

I am very proud of the bipartisan work we did last Congress, and I am pleased to hear that initial reports on implementation, especially at the Drug Center, are promising.

I appreciate this morning's hearing on the implementation of the FDA Safety and Innovation Act.

The broken promises of 'if you like your plan, you can keep it, period,' and that premiums would go down an average of $2,500 are causing unneeded worry, anxiety, and hardship for households across the country.

Cancellations stem far beyond the 5 percent of Americans that the president claims are affected by his broken promise.

This is not health care reform. This is not what the American people were promised.

The broken promises of, if you like your plan, you can keep it, period, and the premiums would go down an average of $2,500 are causing unneeded worry, anxiety, and hardship for households across the country.

In my State, Michigan, residents face an estimated almost 70 percent average increase in the individual market under the President's healthcare law.

Fifty times as many folks are receiving cancellation notices than are even selecting a plan on healthcare.gov.

Millions of Americans are losing their private, affordable coverage, premiums are skyrocketing, Medicaid is enduring an untenable expansion to burden it from its core mission.

Since 2009, this committee and the Congress has vigorously debated the consequences of the President's healthcare law and what it would mean for patients and families across the country.

But why not let the consumer decide whether they want to renew it or not?

The success of the Affordable Care Act is due to the efforts of many people, but one individual more than any other is responsible for all the good that has been accomplished, and that is our witness today Secretary Sebelius.