Quotes from different men at different times .... But there is a correlation between them !
One was trying to improve our health care .. but he definitely lied ! I don’t think anyone died because of this untruth ?
The other definitely lied about a health care problem in the middle of a World wide Pandemic and the body count is ongoing !
Time will tell about both situations and History will be the judge ..... JMO
I vowed that I would steer clear of political things but it is not fair to say that Obama "lied." Like many things with health-care reform, there were a lot of moving parts in the process and that led to misunderstandings.
Here is one version of Obama's original statement and some explanation of it: "First of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan - you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you."
Myth 4: President Obama Promised that "If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan, Period"
Truth: First, Obama meant that the ACA itself did not cancel anyone’s plans. Plans were “grandfathered in” if they existed before the ACA was passed and minimum requirements were met.
Millions of people lost their plans because their insurance companies dropped them. Many of these plans didn't offer basic services. For example, 75% didn't completely cover maternity care.5 Some companies that didn’t comply with the ACA’s requirements chose to drop plans rather than change them. Even some “grandfathered in” policies were dropped. They decided it didn't make business sense to maintain a broad variety of plans at different costs.
Many employees lost their plans because their companies decided to pay the penalty. They knew their workers could find cheaper plans on the exchanges.
14 myths about the ACA
In sum, the failing of the original statement was being too definitive. If Obama had said most people will be able to keep their health care plan but there may be some mitigating circumstances (like those listed above) that make that impossible, then he would have a more accurate representation of the policy.
It is interesting that one of the biggest critics of the ACA John Coryn (R, Texas) is now recommending it in response to Covid-19:
The good news is that if you lose your employer-provided coverage, which covers about 180 million Americans, then that is a significant life event, which makes you then eligible to sign up for the Affordable Care Act — and as you know, it has a sliding scale of subsidies up to 400 percent of poverty," Cornyn
told PBS Austin in an interview. Coryn further added "So that's an option for people. ... The good news is people can find, get coverage under the Affordable Care Act or via Medicaid based on their income."
Cornyn: Those who have lost employer health care can sign up for ObamaCare