Blackburn Works to Protect Americans from Obama's Broken Promises

Statement

Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today voted in support of H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act, which the House passed to help protect Americans from President Obama's broken promises by allowing small businesses and their workers to keep their health plans.

"The President promised Americans that if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. And yet, by this Administration's own admission, up to 80 percent of small business health plans would not make the cut under Obamacare because they were not government compliant.

"As a result of President Obama's broken promises, we have heard from our small business owners In Tennessee and around the country who are struggling with finding a way to provide health insurance to their employees while still managing to stay in business and provide jobs. We have all heard from our constituents about how their insurance premiums and copayments are escalating. People are frustrated by the fact they are being forced into purchasing government compliant insurance, which does not meet their needs.

"That is why I strongly support this legislation that will provide some relief to the small business community by allowing them to maintain their current health insurance plans. This legislation offers those small businesses and their employees much needed cost relief and improved choices in their health insurance."

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