For more than a year now, President Obama has been using a talking point, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Various media outlets and fact checkers have long questioned that line, and Obama ultimately conceded that what he meant was that the government wouldn’t take away your current health care.
To be sure, Obama’s “new” plan may be different, but at the GOP Conference Retreat in Baltimore, he conceded that — when it came to the health care bill the U.S. Senate passed — his often-repeated line was probably a canard:
“… we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.
