Obama on Health Care: Hey, you can’t take me literally

How about metaphorically? Promise expired!

Over the weekend I posted on how the White House advised that the President should not be taken literally when he said, “If you like your private insurance you can keep it.”. Well we never did.

As I have posted repeatedly and mentioned frequently, he won’t have to force people to take his plan because the public plan will simply drive the private insurers either out of business or a “just for the rich” option (you know like Senators and Congress people). When the government sets the rules by which the game is played, can change the rules on a whim, doesn’t have to worry about making a profit and has an unending supply of taxpayer cash, private insurers will be forced out of the game.

Yesterday the President finally came clean himself on this subject. Hey, don’t take me literally. If you have to take the public plan because I drove the private companies out of business … I didn’t exactly force you. Nuance!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDe41LRpzwo

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

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