Then-President Obama and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi pledged in 2009 that if you like your doctor, you could keep your doctor.
The two Democrats were bent on overhauling health care in the United States, but Americans were wary. Lots of them liked their health, and liked their long-time doctors. They were all for lower costs, but they figured that the people they elected would listen to that one demand: We want to keep our doctors.
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan," Obama said before the Affordable Care Act passed. (Politifact in 2013 named that statement "Lie of the Year.") Pelosi followed suit, and then made her bizarre argument that "we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it....”
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5 comments:
This woman has lost it (if she ever had it) and needs to be locked up in a safety room.
Dementia at its finest.
Aren't you Democrats proud of your party leaders?
That's right up there with Jonathan Gruber and Dr Emmanuel saying that the government would half to lie about Obamacare in order to have it gain acceptance. Lying bastards.
They will say what you want to hear and then turn on you. That's why conservatives are in charge today.
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