{"id":19339,"date":"2013-11-07T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:12:58","slug":"whitehouse-gov-contradicts-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19339\/whitehouse-gov-contradicts-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"WhiteHouse.gov Contradicts Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the glitch-ridden federal health insurance portal Healthcare.gov isn\u2019t the only Obama administration website in need of fixing.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on WhiteHouse.gov still parrots President Barack Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/11\/05\/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently disavowed promise<\/a> that \u201cIf you like your plan, you can keep your plan,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/11\/07\/white-house-website-at-odds-with-latest-obama-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a page labeled \u201chealth reform details\u201d the following statement appears: \u201cFor Americans with insurance coverage who like what they have, they can keep it. Nothing in this act or anywhere in the bill forces anyone to change the insurance they have, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet President Obama said to his supporters on Monday, \u201cWhat we said was, \u2018You could keep if [your plan] if it hasn\u2019t changed since the law was passed.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The about-face is due to the President of the United States being caught in a multi-year, bald-faced lie.<\/p>\n<p>As I explain in my column this week, the Obama administration from the president on down has known since at least June 2010 that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/2019-obamacare-lies-a-incompetence-may-be-enough-to-bring-it-down\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 100 million Americans would lose their pre-Obamacare health care plans<\/a> if the law was implemented as written. That\u2019s one reason they delayed the employer mandate, and with it, the vast majority \u2013 almost 80 million \u2013 of projected policy cancellations. (Consumers in the individual insurance market are the ones being hit as the law intended.)<\/p>\n<p>The conflicting statement on WhiteHouse.gov is just more confirmation that President Obama and his administration can\u2019t be trusted to tell the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the glitch-ridden federal health insurance portal Healthcare.gov isn\u2019t the only Obama administration website in need of fixing. A statement on WhiteHouse.gov still parrots President Barack Obama\u2019s recently disavowed promise that \u201cIf you like your plan, you can keep your plan,\u201d reports Fox News. On a page labeled \u201chealth reform details\u201d the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,1829,24,35],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19344,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}