Biden reprises Obama's big lie about his healthcare debacle

 Washington Examiner:

Struggling to explain the details of his own healthcare plan to voters at Thursday night’s debate, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden managed to revive President Obama’s most infamous lie.

Obama told many lies in his effort to sell his national healthcare plan, but his most well known was his bold declaration that "if you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." Of course, millions of people did, in fact, end up losing healthcare plans that they liked as the country transitioned to Obamacare. His lie was so bad that the usually liberal Politifact declared it the “lie of the year” in 2013.

But Biden is going down the same path.

Under fire from President Trump for his plans to unravel private health insurance, Biden fought back bitterly.

 “Not one single person with private insurance will lose their insurance under my plan, nor did they under Obamacare,” Biden declared.

The first part of the statement will be proven false if Biden ever has the chance to pass his healthcare plan, and the second part of the statement has already been proven false.

On the second part, it’s worth noting that even Obama was forced to admit that people were losing health plans and had to apologize as it became one of the low points of his presidency. It was also a key factor in Republicans taking over the Senate in 2014.

But on the first part, it’s completely reckless to declare “not a single person” would lose private insurance under his plan.

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Obamacare was a disaster that is not worth defending.  It is only Democrat control-freak impulses that keep them defending such a flawed government program. 

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