Dem Senator: “You Could Have Kept Your Plan… Until ObamaCare Passed”

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When Obama meant “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” that was only if his ObamaCare plan didn’t pass. What he should have really said was, “If you want to keep your plan, tell your Congressman to vote against ObamaCare.

As the New York Times would put it, he misspoke.

BOB SCHIEFFER: The president said in the beginning that one thing was that if you liked the health care program you had, you could keep it. We now know there was debate within the administration before he said that as to whether that was actually a promise that could be kept. Should the president not have made that statement?

SENATOR FEINSTEIN: Well, as I understand it, you can keep it up to the time — and I hope this is correct, but this is what I’ve been told — up to the time the bill was enacted, and after that, it’s a different story. That part of it, if true, was never made clear.

Good news. You can keep your health plan as long as ObamaCare doesn’t pass. It’s not a lie. It’s the truth. And if we abolish ObamaCare, maybe you’ll even be able to get your health plan back.

  • Erudite Mavin

    How ever this disaster shakes out including it crash and burn, defund, etc. the
    people already with their insurance cancelled and millions more in the next
    few months, what Americans had 2 years ago, will not come back and all be
    the same again.
    Obama care has been a mass disruption of Insurance Cos. Huge numbers of doctors already retiring early and more in recent years not going into Med.
    companies that have closed, laid off employees, or many to part time.
    This toothpaste is not going back into the tube.

  • CowboyUp

    “That part of it, if true, was never made clear.” – DF

    “If true?” If it wasn’t true, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. We’d be talking about how all the people who doubted Obama’s promises, the dp assurances, and predicted this, were wrong. They’re still trying to deny reality.

    And it wasn’t that it “was never made clear,” it was flatly denied. Anyone who doubted it and predicted this was scoffed, accused of using scare tactics, having questionable motives, and were referred to Obama’s clear unambiguous promise, as if it were gospel.

    I doubt anyone that has a medical condition can get their policy back after it’s been cancelled, because now they have a preexisting condition. The dp just made those people dependent on the un-ADA to get a policy, or outright government dependents.

  • tagalog

    No, that part of it was never made clear. In fact, it was covered up with an unconditional promise, whose importance was emphasized with the idiomatic word “period,” suggesting “we REALLY mean it.”

    • objectivefactsmatter

      “In fact, it was covered up with an unconditional promise of freedom to choose, whose importance was emphasized with the idiomatic word “period,” suggesting “we REALLY mean it.””

      The “period” emphasizes that the statement is absolute. No qualifying statements to follow.

      What pisses me off to know end is that there is no question that they had a grandfather clause and then modified it. They can just f off because if they did choose to add “nuance” they would have pointed people to the law as written. But then (after the law was passed, when nobody was looking) they restricted it further as an active attempt to double-cross the people affected in order to try to make their coercive plan work according to their standards of “fairness.”

      And by the way, if you don’t get a subsidy, you’re too greedy and probably a thief. If you don’t like it’ you’re probably selfish and envious of the people that deserve your earnings more than you do. Sorry, we have to do this because it’s the only way we can engineer the ideal society.

      Basically if you don’t like the 0′Care, it’s because you’re part of the problem. At least you won’t get sent to prison. I promise. Period.

      • tagalog

        It doesn’t make me particularly angry because I’ve consigned Obama to the company of egregious liars for years now. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never read Dante’s Inferno, but I’m dead certain that he must have written of a circle in hell for the worst liars and I’m sure Obama is headed there.
        What I find most angering is that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and the Republican Party can capitalize politically on the Obamacare issue to make the Democrat Party look very foolish, the shutdown look like prescience, and generally make hay for the Republican Party for 2014 and 2016. I think the American people will remember what’s happening now in November 2014, but 2016 is a long way away and I fear that Republicans will mess this Heaven-sent opportunity up.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    Obviously you can keep your plan until the bill goes into effect. What everyone wanted to know was what happens after the bill goes into effect. That’s what was being discussed: the Obamacare bill. Now we are being told by Feinstein that Obama was merely stating the obvious and trivial fact that before any law goes into effect there are no changes. What is even more insulting to our intelligence is Schieffer didn’t even wince. I dare Feinstein to say that on O’Reilly.

    • gerry

      O’relly is missing a lot of things,still cannot decide if Obama lied or simply misled.Priceless!

  • Jason

    It’s both sickening and kinda funny to watch the MSM try and spin this to make it seem like Obama never lied. Again, it’s like Benghazi, the MSM and Obama may try and spin it as whatever the hell attempt at saying it’s not a lie, but everyone except the most diehard socialists know that Obama lied, and that lie affects millions.