This was on May 27, 2010 -
Sebelius in 2010: If You Have Insurance That “You Like, You’ll Get to Keep It”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3087368/posts
The very last question from the press asked, “On the grandfathered plans, what sort of flexibility will they have to change the deductible or co-payment or a benefit and retain that status?”
This was Sebelius’s response (emphasis mine):
“Uh, clearly that, um, regulation is not finalized, but I think the… that the goal is to, um, you know, live up to the… the President’s commitment that if you have a plan that you like, you’ll get to keep it. Uh, and how that balances with some of the new consumer protections and how broadly to draw that regulation is currently what’s, you know, being debated.
We should have a final reg out in the not-too-distant future. But, uh, that debate is, is very much underway. But the goal is not to have, um, the market disrupted, uh, because of the new law, but to actually, um, you know, have the gradual implementation until we get to the new marketplace.”
There was no, “the President needs to clarify his statement about your insurance.” There was no, “President Obama didn’t mean that you get to keep your plan.” It was, point blank, his “commitment” to the American people that they could keep their insurance. And Sebelius was happy to be there, parroting the President’s lies.
Here is the entire presser. The question comes in at 28:37:
Implementing the New Health Reform Law (05/27/2010 Press Conference)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fEo8iIgkXs
“gradual implementation until we get to the new marketplace”
How Orwellian! If not Orwellian (fiction) because it has actually happened in fact.
It means — he lied, she lied, because the “gradual implementation”
. . . is like the German farmers in Russia [who came there at the invitation of Cath the Great in order to enhance food production] being declared . . . Kulaks . . . being declared as . . . people who worked for a living — who were to be squeezed out, starved. Because they could work for a living and produce and therefore were independent; therefore they had to be starved to death.
Sebelius and this admin. are starving the private market which can and did provide actual insurance. Meaning: insurance against insurable risks.
here is the press conference from June 14, 2010
Health Reform: Grandfathering Your Current Insurance Plan (06/14/2010 Press Conference)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooLeP8L4Kdk
And this article:
You’re losing your plan: ObamaCare’s true face emerges
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2534048/posts
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/you_re_losing_your_plan_O2H1EFmYlHSoQmqp48uDHI