Obamacare’s Bait and Switch Has Left Consumers Scrambling in 2016

The nine most dreadful words in the English language are, We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. The Affordable Care Act has proven this time and again since the very beginning. Every promise made to promote this program has turned out to be a lie. Politifact declared Barack Obama’s pledge, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” to be the Lie of the Year for 2013.

The president’s parallel promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” turned out to be equally untrue for millions of Obamacare exchange consumers who found access to providers so limited that they had no option to return to their previous clinics. Ditto for Obama’s assurance that the average family of four would pay $2,500 less per year in premiums.

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