Obama taking his deceit to a new low...
Obama denies promising Americans they could absolutely keep their healthcare plans, but video shows him making that pledge – 29 times!
Obama suddenly pivoted Monday night, adding conditions to his pledge that no one would lose insurance plans that they liked
The Affordable Care Act requires policies to include a set of coverage items including maternity and pediatric care, whether or not people want it
As costs rise, insurance companies are issuing cancellation letters by the millions
The White House isn't offering apologies for the about-face, even though the left-of-center Washington Post found that Obama's 'if you like your plan, you can keep your plan' promise was a 'whopper' of a lie
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 18:42 EST, 5 November 2013 | UPDATED: 19:16 EST, 5 November 2013
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Let me be perfectly clear ... I didn't mean it! Obama changed his rhetoric Monday night, backing off from his oft-repeated promise that no American would be forced to abandon his or her health insurance under Obamacare
President Barack Obama told cheering throngs in Washington, D.C. Monday night that he never truly promised Americans could keep their health insurance plans once his Affordable Care Act became law.
'If you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it – if it hasn’t changed since the law passed,' he claimed.
'So we wrote into the Affordable Care Act, you're grandfathered in on that plan. But if the insurance company changes it, then what we're saying is they've got to change it to a higher standard.'
He remarks came at the posh St. Regis hotel during a meeting of Organizing For Action, the nonprofit pressure group that grew out of his presidential campaign organization Obama For America.
But at least 29 videotaped examples available online show Obama promising between 2008 and this year, in only slightly varied language, that 'if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period.'
It wasn't until after the Obamacare program's central website had its disastrous launch, and millions of Americans began receiving insurance cancellation letters, that the White House took a new tack.
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'If you like your plan, and you like your doctor, you won't have to do a thing,' Obama said on June 23, 2009. 'You keep your plan'
More recently, the president and his press flacks have begun to insert into that promise the caveat that Obama uttered Monday: that Obamacare will only let Americans keep their existing insurance plans if nothing about them changes from year to year.
'If the insurance company changes it, then what we're saying is they've got to change it to a higher standard,' Obama told his fans at the St. Regis. 'They've got to make it better. They've got to improve the quality of the plan they are selling.'
The Affordable Care Act itself, however, requires all medical insurance plans sold in the U.S. to include a raft of minimum coverage benefits, a one-size-fits-all approach that doesn't appeal to many buyers.
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Pediatric coverage, maternity care and dental insurance, for instance, are options that the elderly, the single and the frugal have chosen not to pay for in previous years.
Requiring those additions, and seven others, have put millions of Americans with 'grandfathered' policies in the position of being forbidden to keep plans they have happily purchased and renewed for years.
One estimate has 2.5 million such cancellation letters already sent in the U.S., with a peak of 12 million or more expected by year's end.
In a January 2010 speech, Obama promised taxpayers that 'if you want to keep the health insurance you've got, you can keep it'
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