On the recordMarch 12, 2014
I rise to talk about the new numbers that have been released on the President's health care plan. Yesterday the administration announced that slightly more than 4.2 million people have signed up for health plans through the exchanges. As we all know, that is substantially below their first goal and substantially below their adjusted goal just a few weeks ago. One of the things, in an effort by the Washington Post to find out how many of those people hadn't had insurance before--the group that was supposed to be served well by this--their estimate was in an article also this week, about 1 million people--an incredible amount of effort to add 1 million people to the insurance rolls, particularly with the stories from the millions of people who were on the insurance rolls that come to our offices every day; stories that clearly reflect problems with this law and problems, more importantly, for the American families who are impacted. I brought a few of them with me today--since I was talking about this topic last week--that have come to our office. These are stories where we reached back, contacted these people, said I was going to come to the floor with their story. I mentioned their first name and where they are from, are they concerned with that. Time after time people say, oh, no, we want this story told, which is why we reached out to you. Gary in Lake Ozark, MO, says what so many people are saying--that his deductible is now the problem.…
