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PROMISE #1: ‘If You Like Your Plan, You’ll Be Able To Keep It’   PRESIDENT OBAMA: “If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it.  Let me repeat that:  if you like your plan, you’ll be able to keep it.” (President Obama, Remarks At The White House, Washington, D.C., 7/21/09)   [...]

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The Centerpiece Of The Obama Health Care Sales Job Is Proven False After Months Of Promises That “If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan”

RHETORIC: “Nobody Is Talking About You Forcing To Have To Change Your Plans”

PRESIDENT OBAMA: “If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan.” (President Obama, Remarks On Health Care, 3/3/10)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: “I Have Been As Clear As I Can Be. Under The Reform I’ve Proposed, If You Like Your Doctor, You Keep Your Doctor. If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Keep Your Health Care Plan. These Folks Need To Stop Scaring Everybody. You Know? … Nobody — Nobody Is Talking About You Forcing To Have To Change Your Plans. … And If You’ve Got Health Insurance, We’re Not Going To Ask You To Change It.” (President Obama, Town Hall Meeting, Raleigh, NC, 7/29/09)

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In another must-read fact check piece on the health care bill today, the AP writes, “Zach Hoffman was confident his small business would qualify for a new tax cut in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But when he ran the numbers, Hoffman discovered that his office furniture company wouldn’t get any assistance with the $79,200 it pays annually in premiums for its 24 employees. ‘It leaves you with this feeling of a bait-and-switch,’ he said.”

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