Why Obamacare will End Health Insurance as We Know It
President Barack Obama’s signature health-care legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was sold to the public with the explicit promise that “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” On June 15, 2009, President Obama assured the annual meeting of the American Medical Association: “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise:…. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away.
President Barack Obama’s signature health-care legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was sold to the public with the explicit promise that “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” On June 15, 2009, President Obama assured the annual meeting of the American Medical Association: “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise:…. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” Similarly, at a press briefing on June 23, 2009, President Obama stated: “If you like your plan and you like your doctor, you won’t have to do a thing. You keep your plan; you keep your doctor. If your employer’s providing you good health insurance, terrific. We’re not going to mess with it.” To this day, the White House website has a “Reality Check” page devoted to “debunk[ing] the myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan,” which flatly states that “you can keep your own insurance...”
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