HE IS FOCUSED ON REWARDING HIS CRONY'S, PERIOD!
Posted on 11/05/2013 12:09:36 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday said that President Obama couldn't "go back in time" as he was peppered with questions about whether the president regretted promising that Americans who liked their health insurance plans could keep them.
"The president, as awesomely powerful as the office is, can't go back in time," Carney told reporters.
Carney conceded that "there is no question that this rollout has not gone as smoothly as we had hoped," but sidestepped repeated questions about whether the president had over-promised.
Instead, Carney said that the president's repeated guarantee that “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it" was in reference to the "broader promise of the Affordable Care Act."
"What the president is focused on is what we're all focused on, which is getting this right for the American people and getting it right for everyone so that the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, the improvements in the coverage that everyone will enjoy and the broader benefits for our economy because of the slower rate of growth in healthcare costs come about and come into being," Carney said.
Millions of Americans have received the letters saying that they cannot keep their current insurance because of the law.
Individuals who have purchased substandard insurance since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, changed plans during that period or had their insurance companies significantly alter their plans are not eligible to keep their coverage.
Some insurance companies have also announced they will not continue to offer existing plans, saying that it is too burdensome to manage plans that do not satisfy basic coverage requirements mandated by ObamaCare.
Carney admitted there was "no question" that some who individually purchased insurance "are finding out that their plans, because their insurance company pulled the rug out from under them sometime in the last few years, [they] aren't grandfathered in."
The White House spokesman also sidestepped a question about whether Obama had misled the public when he said earlier this year that individuals who already had health insurance did not have to do anything during the law's implementation.
"What the president was referring to was the broader promise of the Affordable Care Act that if you're on Medicare or Medicaid, if you, like probably most people in this room, have insurance through your employer, if you're a vet and you get coverage through the VA, you don't have to do anything," Carney said.
Unless it's Bush's fault.
The newest:
“”What the president was referring to was the broader promise of the Affordable Care Act that if you’re on Medicare or Medicaid, if you, like probably most people in this room, have insurance through your employer, if you’re a vet and you get coverage through the VA, you don’t have to do anything,” Carney said.”
HE IS FOCUSED ON REWARDING HIS CRONY'S, PERIOD!
These bassturds are beneath contempt.
The plans that people WANTED TO STAY ON were made ILLEGAL by OBAMACARE.
And he’s blaming the insurance companies.
Oh I would LOVE to go back in time and smack every single idiot who is even thinking about voting for that Commie piece of filth and snap them out of it
What do you call a man with fecal matter spewing out of his mouth ?
O-B-A-M-A !!!
"It's the right thing ta do!"
There ... fixed it.
"Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor. Nobody is trying to change what works in the system. We are trying to change what doesn't work in the system." - King Zer0
"Don't tell me that words don't matter."
(Youtube vid 1:20) King Zer0 2-16-08
A Montage of Obama's "If You Like Your Plan Keep It" Lies
(Youtube vid 1:36)
I would love to go back in time and convince Obama's father to use a condom...
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