Long Works to Protect Americans from President's Broken Health Care Promise

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U.S. Rep. Billy Long today voted in support of the Employee Health Care Protection Act, legislation which allows group insurance health care plans on the market before the president's health care law took effect to continue to be offered.

"When the president was selling his health care plan to the American people he told them if they liked their plan they could keep their plan. Sadly many Americans found this to be another broken promise from this administration when the health care plans they liked were cancelled, and many where forced to purchase more expensive coverage. This legislation simply says that if a health care plan was on the market before the health care law took effect, Americans should still be able to purchase that plan if they like it and it meets their health care needs. A government bureaucracy should not be dictating to Americans what health care plans they should purchase," Long said.

The "Lie of the Year in 2013," according to Politifact was President Obama's promise to Americans that if they like their health care plan they can keep it. Many Americans found out that promise was not true, and the Employee Health Care Protection Act (H.R. 3522) allows group health insurance plans on the market before the health care law took effect to continue to be offered to Americans through 2019. The legislation also states Americans enrolled in these plans would be exempt from the health care law's individual mandate penalties.

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