“If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan, period.” That assurance, repeated over and over again by Barack Obama, members of his administration and Democratic members of Congress, has been revealed this week for all to see as a lie. A knowing lie: soon after the passage of Obamacare in March 2010, the Obama administration was busy issuing regulations that were intended to and did abolish many existing insurance policies, as my Washington Examiner colleage Tim Carney explains.
Now Obama apologists are coming out with another line explaining that this big lie wasn’t, er, exactly, well somehow, actually, not a lie. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explains now, “What the president said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act that create minimum standards of coverage.” In other words, there was an asterisk at the end of those categorical statements that referred to an invisible footnote, that noted that you can keep your health care plan only if the Obama administration likes it.
