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If you like more competition between insurers, you can’t have it

By David Freddoso
Published November 10, 2013 5:00am ET
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If you like more competition between insurers, you can’t have it
President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on health care at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 9, 2009. (AP File) | Jason Reed

First, President Obama said that if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. Now he has shifted to arguing that you shouldn’t have liked it, but he’s sorry if his deception caused you any inconvenience.

Not to say this argument is going over well, but it might be harder still to defend his promise that you could keep your doctor.

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