Fast-and-Slick, Truth or Lies, Obama Can't Tell the Difference When He Talks about Obamacare

David Axelrod was perhaps the senior advisor closest to President Obama during his first term. He had total access and last-word political decision-making power. Monday Axelrod told MSNBC that only a “vast majority” of Americans can keep their health insurance plan if they like it. This is the first admission from a top administration official that President Obama’s relentlessly-repeated solemn promise to the American people that “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” was and is not true. Axelrod was really admitting that Obama’s promise was phony and was attempting to spin his way out of it in the presence of GOP Senator Tom Coburn, a vocal opponent of Obamacare : AXELROD: Most people are going to keep their plan, Senator, and you know that. The head of Blue Cross in Florida was on television yesterday and said there’s a small number of people being transferred to plans that have a higher quality. Most of them will be subsidized and end up paying less for those plans. SENATOR COBURN: And double the deductibles. AXELROD: The majority of people in this country - the vast majority - are keeping their plan.” ~~~~~ Obamacare news coverage has often been biased and inaccurate in favor of Obama and his Obamacare, but the cascading stories of middle class, and even poor, Americans losing the health insurance they were happy with and were promised they could keep, is finally forcing mainstream media and Obama spokespeople to be more accurate. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who were perfectly happy with their health plans, and took Obama at his word, have already been blindsided by cancellation notices. Soon, according to the Congressional Budget Office, millions more Americans will receive cancellation notices. Basically, millions are and will be herded into government-approved, one-size-fits-all plans that are more expensive, have higher deductibles, and might not allow them to keep their doctor (another Obama fast-and-slick with the facts). Although some might enjoy cheaper plans due to taxpayer-funded subsidies, the misinformation Obama, Axelrod and the media are spreading about these “higher quality” plans - if you were happy with your health care plan, you keep it - chances are great that despite what the White House and some media are saying, you are not getting a “higher quality plan.” You are being forced to buy a more expensive plan that includes all kinds of services a huge swath of Americans don’t want or need: vision and dental (which are affordable in the free market), maternity and newborn care, contraception, and coverage for drugs, alcohol, and mental health problems. ~~~~~ For some time and while taking almost universal abuse from Obama, Democrats, his own GOP, Americans and the media, Senator Ted Cruz stood alone in calling for the repeal of Obamacare. Now, Cruz has an ally. Senator Ron Johnson told Newsmax that he's prepared to sue the "lawless" Obama administration over its decision to grant members of Congress and their staff special treatment under Obamacare. The Wisconsin Republican also warns that the real concern, beyond the dysfunctional Obamacare website, is the damage Obamacare will do the country's healthcare system and personal freedoms. Johnson, a successful businessman elected to the Senate in 2010, is a member of the Budget, Foreign Relations Commerce, and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees. Monday, Johnson told Newsmax TV, when asked if he believes the White House claim that it can fix the problems plaguing the Obamacare website, said : "I have no idea. They've only had 3½ years. Maybe another month would be the charm. Eventually the website will get fixed. It certainly should be. There are more than 5,000 websites currently on the Internet that handled more traffic than the Obamacare site in its first few weeks. So this is an entirely doable process to have a functioning website. It's just that the federal government is not particularly effective or efficient in doing just about anything. The real harm of Obamacare once it becomes fully implemented is the damage it'll cause to our healthcare system, to our federal budget, to our personal freedoms. So they may fix the website, but there's no way they can fix the harm if Obamacare actually takes permanent root. The president now has arbitrarily delayed the individual-mandate deadline to March after previously delaying the employer mandate by a year, yet the law grants him no authority to change dates like this. I'm highly concerned. Across the board, in so many instances, this is pretty much a lawless administration - the unconstitutional recess appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board and to the Consumer Financial Bureau - this President seems to have no restraint in terms of the Constitution or laws that even he enacts. So I'm highly concerned about that. It's one of the reasons that I really do intend to pursue a lawsuit to overturn another unlawful ruling that grants members of Congress and their staff special treatment under Obamacare. The president had no legal authority to initiate that ruling. I'm hoping that a senator, like myself, as well as members of my staff have the legal standing to go to court to overturn that, let's face it, lawless ruling." Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, is proposing what many Republicans have been pushing for - a one-year delay of the individual mandate. At least 10 Democrats have signed on to her proposal. Asked if he believes the White House will be forced to delay the individual mandate by a year, Johnson responded : "It would totally depend on exactly how quickly they can get that website up and functioning. Americans were promised by President Obama repeatedly that if you like your health plan, you will keep it period. That is basically showing to be a broken promise for over a million Americans who already got those notices. So it's going to totally depend on when they get that website up and running as to whether an individual-mandate delay will basically be necessary because it simply is not going to be fair to hold Americans accountable to a penalty, or I guess it's a tax, if they can't even access or purchase healthcare through the exchanges." Johnson asserts that Obama ought to make a decision on whether or not Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will lose her job. "What I'm finding pretty frightening is when you start reading reports about how there was absolutely no central manager of this entire process. It shows the lack of experience President Obama has in terms of being an executive, being able to manage anything. With something this significant, basically a government takeover of one-sixth of our economy, somebody had to be in charge. And it doesn't look like anybody was in charge, which is why this rollout has been such a disaster. But it's also why the entire Obamacare health law will be a disaster, because the two major promises [Obama] made for the healthcare law was, first and foremost, if you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep it, and also that the cost of a family plan would actually decline by $2,500 dollars. Neither of those promises has been kept. So one of two things happened: He was simply not being honest with the American public, or he in a frightening manner did not understand what was in his healthcare law or simply didn't understand the consequences of it. Either way, it's pretty disconcerting from a standpoint of the president of the United States." ~~~~~ Dear readers, as the alarm cries multiply, it is time for President Obama to step up to a microphone, stop lying and hiding from Obamacare by touting immigration reform, and tell the American people the only thing that matters -- Obama should call on Congress to repeal Obamacare and begin again, this time with competent professional advice, to decide how to provide coverage for Americans who do not have health care insurance. The rest of America is doing just fine, Mr. Obama. Just get off their backs.