Foxx Shares North Carolinians' Health Care Stories on House Floor

Floor Speech

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement on the personal impact the Affordable Care Act is having on 5th District residents and the Keep Your Plan Act:

"Fifth District residents contact me every day to share how the President's Affordable Care Act is impacting them. Insurance policies are being cancelled -- policies families liked and thought they could keep; premiums are increasing beyond what family budgets can handle; people's personal health coverage choices are being belittled by central government planners. Washington Democrats can't ignore their stories.

"Though Obamacare is the absolute wrong solution to America's health care challenges and won't be truly "fixed' without full repeal, we should do all we can to protect Americans from the President's broken promises within the law -- especially the central broken promise, that if Americans liked the health care plans they had, they could keep them.

"Today I voted in favor of the Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013. We are a nation of laws, not of "administrative fixes.' In spite of the President's veto threat and the challenges to enact such a policy in the health care market with sufficient time, Americans deserve to have a legislative safeguard that says the plans they like and want to keep are not illegal under the law. It's not enough to take the President at his word."

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