"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." President Obama, August 11, 2009.We now know the president was being disingenuous when he said that.
From an op-ed by House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell:
For more than a year, Democrats in Washington have turned a deaf ear to the American people when it comes to health care.Obama lied.
Americans told lawmakers in Washington that they wanted reforms that would lower costs; Democrats in Congress increased them. They said they wanted Medicare protected; Democrat leaders used it as a piggy bank, cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare to help pay for this massive new government expansion of health care. They said they wanted reforms that would enable them to keep the plans they had; Democrats in Washington ignored that request, too.
And while the president promised that "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan," yet another independent report came out Wednesday showing that to be just another broken promise.
According to The Associated Press, the analysis projects that more than 3 million Medicare beneficiaries will see their prescription plan eliminated, with people forced to choose a different plan.
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