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Constituents talking about how they are getting dropped from their own plan. let me show you one example of that. what do you say to mark and lucinda in my district who liked their plan and it is being terminated and now they don t have health insurance. insurance companies cancel individual policies year in and year out. they are a one-year contract with individuals. they are not time plans and not an employer plan. let me move on. i will remind you some people like to drive a ford and not a ferrari and some people like a solo cup and not a crystal stem. you are taking away their choice. for seemed like the secretary struggled to explain why there is so much confusion and why people are getting letters saying why people can no longer have the health care they had. leading the witness to try to get her to clarify and the gist ....
okay. what do you say to mark and lucinda in my district who had a plan, they liked it, it was affordable. it was terminated and now they don t have health insurance. insurance companies cancel individual policies. they are one year contracts with individuals. they are not lifetime plans. not an employer plan. let me move on. it s what they wanted. i will remind you some people like to drive a ford, not a ferrari and some people like to drink out of a red solo cup and not a crystal stem. you are taking away their choice. james carville, i know you are a man of your word. right. the president made the promise and 16 million americans with individual health plans aren t keeping their plan, james. i would like to see that calling a bicycle a car doesn t make it a car. don t duck the question. i m not ducking the question. most of the plans don t even ....
Lucinda in my district who had a plan, they liked it, it was affordable, but it is being terminated and now they do not have health insurance? insurance companies cancel individual policies year in and year out. they are a one year contract with individuals. it they are not life time plans, they re not an employer plan. pretty me move on. i will remind you, some people like to drive a ford, not a fair rarely p. and some people like to drink out of a red solo cup, not a crystal stem. you re taking away their choice. let s put the screen shot up. i want to go to the website. this is what is happening right now with this website. we ve had somebody in the back trying to sign on. it is down. it is not working. last week i asked for the cost from each of the contractors that were with us last week. so can you give me a ballpark of what you have spent on this website that does not work that ....
reporter: and republicans have been saying privately that their strategy is to get beyond the web sesite because they bele ultimately it will be fixed and to look at the fundamental problems with the law. one is that people are being dropped from their existing plans. something the president promised wasn t going to happen during the campaign and before the law became law. and republicans came armed with constituent horror stories. here is one example. what do you say to mark and lucinda in my sdrirdistrict whoa plan, they liked it, but it is being terminateded and now they do not have health insurance. insurance companies cancel individual policies year in and year out. they are a one year contract with individuals. they are not life time plans, they are not an employer plan. let me move on. i will remind you, some people like to drive a ford, not a ferrari. ....
Is he keeping his promise? yes, he is. what do you say to the 300,000 people in florida you just mentioned or the 28,000 in tennessee that cannot get health insurance. those are terminated. is he keeping their promise to them? they can get health insurance. they must be offered new plans and new options in the market place and if they don t qualify for a financial subsidy. they absolutely will have new coverage. what are do you say to nbc new who is said millions will lose their coverage. with all deference to the press corps and many will be here today, it s important to be accurate and i defer to the president of the plan. they will have ongoing coverage and be offered new plans. madam secretary, let me tell you something. what do you say to mark and lucinda who had a plan they ....