ObamaCare Promises Debunked – If You Like Your Plan, You’ll Likely Lose It

President Obama: If You Like Your Healthcare Coverage, You Can Keep It:

“At the same time -- I just want to be completely clear about this; I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren't listening -- if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan.  Nobody is going to force you to leave your health care plan.” (Remarks by the President, 8/15/09, accessed on whitehouse.gov, 6/11/2010)

RED ALERT: Stringent Regulations Will Force Employers To Ditch Their Current Healthcare Plans:

“The Obama administration issued strict rules Monday under which even some small changes to existing health care plans will make them subject to the requirements of the new health care reform law. The president promised repeatedly during the health care debate that individuals who like their current plans would be able to keep them. To meet that goal, the health care law envisioned that some plans would be “grandfathered in” under the old law — and therefore would not be required to meet some of the mandates of the new law, such as no-charge preventive care screenings. But critics of the reform law said Monday that the administration’s new rules clamp down too hard — and would effectively eliminate the old plans many Americans have and like. The regulation, released by the Department of Labor, the Treasury and HHS, estimates that 13 percent to 42 percent of employers would lose their grandfathered status by next year, and 34 percent to 80 percent would by 2013. Small businesses are considered more likely than larger companies to lose their grandfathered status.” (Jennifer Haberkorn, “New regs strict with 'grandfathers,'” Politico, 6/15/2010)