Obamacare

Floor Speech

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Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, I join my colleagues on the floor today because, like many of them, my constituents are upset. Idahoans are finding out that America's promise to the American people that ``if you liked your health care plan you could keep it'' simply was not true.

Over 100,000 Idahoans will find out that they cannot keep their current plans. Idahoans such as Jennifer from Salmon, ID, are finding this out the hard way. Jennifer is a working self-employed mother of three whose current health care costs her family $375 a month. Now Jennifer is being told that her current plan is no longer available under the President's health care law and that the next available plan to her family will cost $900 per month with a $10,000 deductible. That plan will require Jennifer to spend $20,000 a year between premiums and deductibles before she has benefit coverage.

This is Kelly, another hard-working mother who was promised affordable and successful health care coverage under ObamaCare.

Optimistic to enroll, Kelly and her husband looked to sign up, only to find the plans available to their family were unaffordable and thus inaccessible.

The health care law was sold on the premise that it would help families such as Kelly's--those struggling to get by month-to-month in our stifled economy--to obtain affordable, quality health insurance. Instead, Kelly and her husband are now considering taking the penalty fine for being uninsured under the new law as it is a more feasible option for their family at this time.

There are many more just like Kelly and Jennifer in Idaho and across the country dealing with new hardships as a result of this law. The President needs to work with Congress to find reasonable solutions to amend the many broken promises made about this law.

Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor.

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