Government proponents of Obamacare are offering incoherent and sometimes self-contradictory explanations for why insurance companies are canceling plans, despite President Obama’s promise that people would be able to keep their plans.

“There’s nothing in the health care law that makes insurers force people out of plans that consumers were enrolled in before the law,” Julie Bataille, communications director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters during a conference call Tuesday.