If You Like Your Plan, Can You Keep Your Plan? Obamacare, Charted

[xchrom]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/if-you-like-your-plan-can-you-keep-your-plan-obamacare-charted/281070/

“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”

No speechwriter to President Obama needs to be reminded of how often the president made this promise. At the height of the debate over health reform, it would have been useful for us to have a shortcut to insert it into our drafts, maybe taking over one of those mysterious function keys above the numbers. (That and a “straw-man macro” would have saved a ton of time.)

So as a former speechwriter to the president and an avid user of the microblogging procrastination machine known as Twitter.com, it’s no surprise that I’ve been asked often (and occasionally politely) about this promise and what keeping it, or failing to keep it, means for the larger enterprise of reforming our nation’s health care system.

Here's my answer, in chart form.

[kentuck]

1. Thanks!

Good synopsis.

[xchrom]

2. it's funny cause i'm a supporter of medicare for all -- but the debate

takes on some funny angles because of the down right disinformation the right puts out.

mostly though -- i see no reason for 'health insurance'.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Excellent! I just trashed a thread by a questionable DUer that listed another

Rightwing article by the WaPo, that President Obama got 4 Pinocchios for his "If you like your plan, you can keep it" without any specifics. Yours shows the truth of that statement that was meant for the 95% of Americans who can keep their health insurance plans.

[ChazII]

4. Thank you n/t