On the recordSeptember 29, 2010
Thank you, Mr. President. As my colleagues know, I have come to the floor week after week after this bill was signed into law with a doctor's second opinion based on my nearly quarter of a century practice in Wyoming, taking care of families there. I go home every weekend and talk to people. The people of Wyoming remember when the President of the United States spoke to a joint session of Congress and he told the American people about the plan that was later signed into law. During that speech the President said: . . . if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat: Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. I think I heard the chairman of the Finance Committee say that if you like your plan, you can pretty much keep it. That is not what the President said.
