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Obama's 'Keep Your Plan' Lie Is Why We're Stuck with ObamaCare
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 10/30/2013 | IBD Staff

Posted on 10/31/2013 5:44:54 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Deception: In the face of millions of cancellation notices, Democrats want to downplay the president's "keep your health plan" pledge as standard political hyperbole. It was, in fact, a calculated lie that got ObamaCare enacted.

To understand why, let's freshen up on a little health care reform history.

Back in 1994, when Bill Clinton was pushing his own version of "comprehensive health reform," the insurance industry launched its infamous "Harry and Louise" ads to deliver a simple message: The Clinton plan would force families to give up their own health plans.

In one of these, the middle-class couple pours over a pile of documents at the kitchen table, while a narrator intones about how "things are changing, and not all for the better," and how "the government may force us to pick from a few plans designed by government bureaucrats."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; healthcare; obama; obamacare; obamacarelies; obamalies; youcankeepit
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1 posted on 10/31/2013 5:44:54 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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Notice how much Repuglicans are protesting about Obamas lie. They are NOT. I haven’t heard ONE. You would think every Rep. Senator would be screaming from the rooftops about this but of course once again they hide under their desk and crawl into a fetal position and let the twice unconstitutionally elected Islamic Kenyan get away with it again just like they did with Benghazi and every other thing this puke does. “Oh let’s bash Ted Cruz instead...Obama is our Fuhrer! We cannot criticize der Fuhrer!”


2 posted on 10/31/2013 5:54:10 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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And nobody was “talking about taking that plan away from you!”

It was the only truthful part of his comment all those lies ago.


3 posted on 10/31/2013 5:56:25 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: IBD editorial writer
ObamaCare will survive only if the American people, who oppose it, allow it to survive.

If enough people say “take this law and shove it,” then ObamaCare will collapse. The big issue it to get the young and healthy to sign up for ObamaCare. They are the ones who will be funding it. They are also some of Obama’s biggest supporters.

If ObamaCare can be destroyed before the Democrats have a chance to set up a single payer system, and before the insurance industry is destroyed, then there is a chance.

4 posted on 10/31/2013 5:56:31 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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I wonder what that middle-class couple is pouring over that kitchen table.


5 posted on 10/31/2013 5:57:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I saw Johnny Isakson’s outgoing chief of staff, Chris Carr, speak a few weeks ago. He spent as much or more time attacking Ted Cruz as he did Democrats.


6 posted on 10/31/2013 5:58:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The “debate” as to whether he “lied” or not is proof positive that the fix is in with our rulers. “You can keep your plan” was the watchcry. It was not only a lie it is FRAUD. Obama should be impeached. Rather, he should be hounded out of office. And the nerve of the left blaming the insurance companies. Rule for radicals.


7 posted on 10/31/2013 6:00:53 AM PDT by LALALAW (one of the asses who's sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: IBD editorial writer

If, as some of the more truthful rats are saying,
they had to lie because people would be too stupid to know
that they new plans were better than the old -

then who’s “stupid”?

No conservative believed you could “keep your plan” under Obamacare.
It must be the left’s constituency that are too stupid.


8 posted on 10/31/2013 6:02:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Obamacare is like a really really bad joke from a terrible comedian.

Just don’t patronize it, acknowledge it or even scorn it, and bad comedians always get the stage hook.

If nobody shows up for the party then it takes all the steam out of it, right now even IF the ACA websites did function STILL America has woke up to the fact its all a joke, a massive bait and switch.

And all we can hope for now is some situation that will suddenly arise that will remove Obama from office.


9 posted on 10/31/2013 6:03:59 AM PDT by Spartan302 (Spartans never quit, they come back later with more warriors. Asymmetrical Warfare.)
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Their lie explainations get more imaginative every day:

Those are bad policies being cancelled, expensive and not worth the paper they are written on, huge out of pocket costs.

The insurance companies are canceling them because of the market, Obamacare doesnt make them do anything.

We cant force insurance companies to offer those crappy policies, its a free market.

Of course we cant allow insurance companies to rip Americans off, they are getting much better plans at lower prices through ACA,

10 posted on 10/31/2013 6:04:46 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: FreedomPoster

It’s unbelievable isn’t it, this is exactly why this country is in the huge mess it is in, we have a fanatic allowed to run amok without anyone holding him back. What does he have to fear? He’s got Republicans bowing to him.


11 posted on 10/31/2013 6:11:21 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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You know exactly why he doesn’t have anything to fear.
He can do anything he darn well pleases, without consequences,
because of his skin tone.

And this is why the left put him in power.


12 posted on 10/31/2013 6:12:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

These losers are too big to fail... hahaha. Trent Lot during Bill’s impeachment said it was a threat to democracy to have him impeached. Democracy, ie the evil impulse of materialist communism becomes their god.

It is no surprize they rely on the pimping fashions of hate and abortion instead of addressing issues to Obama. These people are cowards and dangerous. They stand by Hitler and are not much different than Sadam’s parliament.


13 posted on 10/31/2013 6:18:11 AM PDT by lavaroise
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It is a clear case of fraud.

He lied, misrepresenting the truth.

Fraud is a felony. A president's committing a felony is impeachable.

Obama must be impeached.

14 posted on 10/31/2013 6:19:21 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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They lied and they don’t care. 0bama and his team is toast, and they don’t care. That’s why they fired Hillary so she would be clean and not tainted by this administration’s failures, and run for president.


15 posted on 10/31/2013 6:20:59 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
That's because they've had enough time to get on the equity side of the equation. Big Republican donors are now invested in companies like "Insperity", who runs those insipid ads on the radio.

That's all they GAF about, really. Preservation of capital first and foremost. That's why they go along with the socialists, they've just gotta figure out a way to make a buck off of it and then they're cool with it.

The Senator from my own state who's also an obstetrician is a good example.

16 posted on 10/31/2013 6:27:30 AM PDT by OKSooner
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Lies like this should carry the weight of “Perjury”.
This is not some Free Speech issue like,
"My opponent has intercourse with goats and sheep".
This is fraud on an unprecedented level and it is going to literally cost people their lives when they get caught in the Bureaucracy.
17 posted on 10/31/2013 6:32:03 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Spartan302

Obozocare has been rammed down our throats because way too many gullible people forgot a reality check and believed a bunch of lies, besides it has nothing to do with compassion but all with confiscation and re-distribution of wealth and to increase and multiply the ignorant socialistic voter base who is always hoping, wishing and expecting something for nothing. Wait until Obozocare is fully implemented and reality sets in and it will hit people in the pocket book.
Promising unrealistic cheap health care, handing out free cell phones all designed to buy votes and dumb and ignorant people fell for it. What will it be next....free TV’s, cars etc. It certainly is reminiscent of ancient Rome where the emperor built a coliseum to entertain and pacify the public in order to keep them docile. Here and now, the left uses different methods and trinkets in order to BS the already mostly befuddled and ignorant public. History has a nasty habit of repeating itself.


18 posted on 10/31/2013 6:38:49 AM PDT by saintgermaine
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Our company had an HMO. I remember back in the day when an HMO was considered a piece of crap because of the control they had over your healthcare. Well under Obamacare that HMO became a Cadillac plan and we lost it.

Eventually I see us going back to Barbers for our medical needs.

19 posted on 10/31/2013 6:45:19 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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President Nixon was almost impeached for lying about a political burglary.

President ShamWow not only lied to us, he KNEW he was lying.

Call your Congressmen and Senators:

www.house.gov

www.senate.gov

President ShamWow has to go. So Biden becomes President.

We cannot abide a lying CEO and CIC in office.


20 posted on 10/31/2013 6:47:41 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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