The source of the Obamacare healthcare lie

Lachlan Markay:

A group that coordinated health care messaging among scores of top Obamacare advocates repeatedly pushed the false Democratic promise that all Americans could keep their health insurance plans and doctors under the law and continued to do so as late as last year.

The Herndon Alliance was one of the most prominent Democratic messaging organizations during the legislative fight over Obamacare. It pushed talking points to a who’s who of liberal groups that support the law.

The Center for American Progress, the AARP, the Service Employees International Union, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and MoveOn.org are all listed among the group’s 176 partners.

Herndon has repeatedly advised those groups and individuals through talking points memos posted on its website to promise American health care consumers that Obamacare will not disrupt their health care or health insurance.

“When President Barack Obama says Americans can maintain their ‘choice’ of doctors and insurance plans, he is using a Herndon strategy for wringing fear out of a system overhaul,” Politico noted in a 2009 piece on the group.

However, recent events have shown those talking points are false. Millions of Americans are receiving cancelation notices from insurance companies whose plans do not meet Obamacare’s minimum coverage requirements.
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The latest lie about their lie is to try to "re-brand" the cancellations  as "renewals."  This twisted logic attempts to say that by cancelling the old policy they are going to get a better policy, but that is a dubious proposition at best since many are finding the new policies on the exchanges are over priced and have deductibles that make them worthless for many people.  The debacle continues.