What could be more emphatic than that?
"If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what."
No matter what! That was Barack Obama selling ObamaCare. As we contemplate our buyer's remorse, we can be reminded of the words of Nancy Pelosi.
“But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”
There are some, I suppose, who believed Obama meant it when he said, "Period," although it's difficult for me to imagine. Gullible seems such an inadequate description, especially now that we're finding out "what is in it."
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”
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Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”
That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.
Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,” was still saying in 2012, “If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.”
Obama knowingly lied about healthcare reform. Period. But, why should anybody be surprised about that?
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