“At the same time the president was making the promise, his own administration acknowledged the regulations they were passing would make it impossible to keep it.” 
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – “We now learn that the Obama Administration itself issued the very regulations which have made this – keeping this promise – impossible,” said U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX,) criticizing President Obama on the Senate floor for misleading the American people about how Obamacare would affect their health insurance.
His full speech can be seen here, and excerpts of his remarks are below.
“When President Obama campaigned for re-election in 2012, he reiterated his promise from 2009 and 2010, again, a remarkably consistent message from the president. He said, if you like your existing plan and you wanted to keep it, you had nothing to worry about.
“We now learn that the Obama Administration itself issued the very regulations which have made this – keeping this promise – impossible.
“In other words, at the same time the president was making the promise, his own administration acknowledged that the regulations they were passing would make it impossible to keep it. Well, as you can imagine, people are increasingly frustrated by these broken promises.
“I recently set up a website in my office where my constituents can let me know how their personal health care coverage has been affected by the implementation of Obamacare. And I hope others who perhaps may hear my comments this morning, if they have stories that they would like for us to be able to tell to explain how these broken promises have resulted in their inability to keep what they have, I hope they will let us know on our website. It’s Cornyn.Senate.gov.
“One woman from Livingston, Texas, over in East Texas, writes, ‘My health insurance is being canceled due to the Affordable Care Act. My insurance company offered a plan that I can keep until 2014. Guess what? It’s 19% more a month than my current plan and it drops coverage for laboratory and imaging studies.’ So not only is it more expensive, it actually reduces coverage.
“Going on, she said, ‘In December 2014, I’ll have to change it again. Premiums for myself and my husband at that time will increase 100% each, which will equal just about half, 50%, of our gross monthly income. What exactly are we supposed to do?’
“Another woman from Pampa, Texas, up in the Texas Panhandle, writes that her monthly health insurance premiums have increased by 30% already over last year and now her policy is being canceled altogether because of Obamacare. So she’s got to purchase a new health insurance policy that will cost, in her words, ‘much more’ than her existing coverage.
“After witnessing Obamacare’s disastrous rollout and its long trail of broken promises, I think most Americans would agree it’s time for something different.”
Senator Cornyn serves on the Finance and Judiciary Committees. He serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee. He served previously as Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge.
