Reporters are beginning to catch on, albeit a few years late. ABC’s Rick Klein noted a month ago that the idea that Americans could keep their insurance plans if they liked them under Obamacare was a promise that was “never possible to keep.” This month, Business Insider’s Josh Barro argued that “there are a lot of health plans that Americans shouldn’t be able to keep,” whether they like them or not.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper is asking tonight why President Obama kept repeating that line when it was so obviously untrue.
@andersoncooper because he wanted to get re-elected?
— Ed DeRosa (@EJXD2) October 29, 2013
@andersoncooper Maybe he doesn't know everything about his program? :O #AC360
— George (@Dragondefender) October 29, 2013
@andersoncooper because people believe everything they hear and do not educate themselves!
— Living My Best Life (@BellaJoleneNJ) October 29, 2013
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@andersoncooper #Obama #AC360 because he's a pathological political liar.
— THE WORLD NEEDS AMERICA NOW (@bobusa20) October 29, 2013
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.@andersoncooper I dunno, Coop, seems like thing journalists might have looked into at the time.
— Thomas Lord (@thomas_lord) October 29, 2013
You’re not guaranteed to receive a cancellation notice, though reportedly more than a million have, because their policies don’t meet the minimum standards set up by the Affordable Care Act.
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@andersoncooper You can keep your plan if its still offered blaming the prez is a stretch when a business decides to change what it offers.
— Alexandria Seaborne (@aseaborne) October 29, 2013
.@aseaborne they are changing what they offer because the new law requires them to. They plans do not cover what the new law requires
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) October 29, 2013
@andersoncooper @aseaborne BUT I LIKED MY PLAN. I don't need maternity coverage. I don't want mental health coverage. I liked MY plan. #lies
— New Falcons Uniforms Suck – Thanks, Blank (@HistoryofMatt) October 29, 2013
@andersoncooper @aseaborne That isn't what the President said. He said you COULD keep your plan. Period. End of story.
— Sandy (@sandymorgan7) October 29, 2013
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