Actually, Obama and his ilk really told the truth. Except that their average family definition is different from yours and mine. He, they, meant the average "entitlement" family. They never had a plan to keep, they never had a doctor to keep, and they certainly never spent a dime of their own healthcare, so it's all gravy to them and in their minds he's kept that promise.
The rest of us? He could give a rat's patootie - we're getting our well deserved comeuppance. Ruin the healthcare for over 100 million people just to serve people that would be on Medicaid anyway.
In Soviet society, there was no individual; only the success of the group had meaning.
The book "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943" describes the desperate situation of the Russian army, short of supplies and men. Yet it still managed to enforce discipline by forming a line of soldiers, and shooting every 10th man in the head, lest they believe the individual meant anything.
1960s radicals long for such a Utopia.