Tuesday,
I was charitable toward Obama.
Yes, I do that on occasion.
I left the door open to the possibility he was not lying when he said on
numerous occasions from 2009 to 2012 that if we like our health plans, we can
keep them:
This
means one of two things – Obama willfully told us a Big Lie about Obamacare
supposedly letting us keep our health insurance plans, or he is so clueless and
detached that he did not know what his own signature law and his own
administration was doing. If he
was that clueless and really cares about the situation, he will soon come out
and insist that Obamacare be administered so that his promise will be somehow,
in a fashion, kept.
Well, yesterday we found out Obama’s response to
insurance cancellations and other Obamacare problems – doubling down on Big
Lies. And that in turn lets us
know he was lying in the first place.
I heard so many lies from Obama and Sebelius and
allies yesterday, I cannot even pretend to be able to keep up with them. But that is part of the Big Lie
technique, to tell lies over and over until they become common “knowledge”.
One big whopper told by Obama himself is that what
the insurance cancellations really were was transitioning people from inferior plans
into better plans. Lie. And one repeated by Obama’s hacks. David Frum’s (well deserved) experience
is typical:
Now
our protagonist has become “one of the hundreds of thousands of people whose
insurance coverage was canceled for not complying with the terms of the
Affordable Care Act,” the euphemism for ObamaCare. “As a result, not only will
I pay more, but I have had to divert many otherwise useful hours to futzing
around with websites and paperwork.”
Before
ObamaCare, he paid $668 a month for a high-deductible plan. He actually managed
to get through to his “state” exchange (he lives in the District of Columbia)
and price a more or less comparable plan. It’s $865 a month, and the
deductibles are higher, by $600 within the plan’s network and $1,200 without.
By our calculations that means he will pay $2,364 more a year in premiums, and
a total of $4,164 more if he maxes out on the deductibles.
In other words, higher premiums and higher
deductibles. (But, but Obama told
us premiums would go down!) That’s
what most of those who are dealing with cancellations are facing. And the cancellations are not the
insurance companies’ fault as Obama and allies would have us think. The cancellations are caused by
Obamacare and the Obama Regime’s writing of the Obamacare regs as reported by (even) NBC. And that can’t be
blamed on Republicans either. Yes,
Democrats are doing that as well.
I could go on. But again, that Obama and allies’ response to health plan cancellations is to tell Big
Lies pretty much proves that “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan”
was a Big Lie in the first place.
And now, even the Washington Post’s fact checker agrees, with 4 Pinocchios no less.
But, of course, that Big Lie was necessary to pass
Obamacare and re-elect Obama.
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