Obama Gets Four Pinocchios For Lies On ObamaCare

The "fit hit the shan" when people began receiving healthcare cancellation notices if their existing insurance policies don't comply with provisions of ObamaCare.

Obama has made the blanket statement, "If your like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." The statement was even on ObamaCare's website. That has been found to be a bald-faced lie. And they've known it was a lie for about three years. Now people are being forced into health care policies that are too expensive.

National Review Online reports:

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition for President Obama’s repeated vows to the contrary. 

 “We knew that there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people would be required to get more extensive coverage,” Hoyer said in response to a question from National Review.

 Yahoo News posted:

Because the market for individual insurance experiences significant turnover, the insinuation is the Obama administration had to have known many policies "grandfathered" in would not qualify for the Affordable Care Act. NBC News reports that the administration knew in 2010 that "more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them." 

“This says that when they made the promise [that individuals could keep their plans], they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” Robert Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates told NBC News.

This prompted the Washington Post's The Fact Checker to rate Obama's promise of keeping the health care policy you're happy with:

The president’s statements were sweeping and unequivocal — and made both before and after the bill became law. The White House now cites technicalities to avoid admitting that he went too far in his repeated pledge, which, after all, is one of the most famous statements of his presidency. 

The president’s promise apparently came with a very large caveat: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan — if we deem it to be adequate.”

Only there was no caveat given.  So, the Washington Post has given the Obama Administration: