chuckmo48 wrote:
Yep it is the status quo..lies and more lies
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Everybody's got to be covered...I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now." —Donald Trump, September 2015
Dear Stupid,
Aren't you forgetting about something?Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'By Angie Drobnic Holan on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 4:44 p.m.
PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'Tampa Bay Times
We counted dozens of times that President Barack Obama said that if people liked their health plans, they could keep them.
It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," President Barack Obama said -- many times -- of his landmark new law.
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But the promise was impossible to keep.
So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.
Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.
For all of these reasons,
PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013. Readers in a separate online poll overwhelmingly agreed with the choice. (PolitiFact first announced its selection on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper.)