Barack Obama insisted yesterday that Americans who like their current health insurance plan would not have to change it under ObamaCare.  As always, you can tell when Obama is about to tell a whopper when he begins with:

“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,” the president told residents of the Garden State. “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.  Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”

Apparently, Obama doesn’t keep up with his own expiration dates.  Jake Tapper does, however:

At a rally in Holmdel, New Jersey, today, President Obama continued making a promise about health care reform that he has acknowledged isn’t literally true. …

But last month, as the president acknowledged during a press conference, he doesn’t literally mean that you are guaranteed to be able to keep your health care plan, and your doctor, if and when health care reform passes.

“When I say ‘If you have your plan and you like it,… or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don’t have to change plans,’” the president said after we asked him about this, “what I’m saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform.”

In fact, as Tapper reports, Obama had softened the claim since he got challenged on this point on June 23rd.  He had made that claim much less definitive, to a “no one want to make you change,” rather than a declarative “you can keep your plan.”

Looks like TOTUS-R is wreaking revenge for its brother’s destruction by displaying the older version of ObamaSpeak rather than the newer, lower-commitment double-talk.  How long before TOTUS-R has an “accident”?

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