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During an interview with NBC that aired on Thursday, Pres. Obama issued an apology to Americans who have had their health insurance canceled due to the failure to meet requirements set up by the Affordable Care Act, even after the president promised, multiple times, that this wouldn't happen.
"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," Obama said.
"We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."
The Obama administration has tried to downplay his past promises that cancellations of health insurance premiums wouldn't happen due to Obamacare, telling supporters at an Organizing for Action meeting in Washington, D.C. on Monday that he never made these promises. Instead, he claimed that what he had said was that people could keep their plans if they hadn't been changed since the passage of the act.
"What we said was you could keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed," the president said on Monday.
"If we had allowed these old plans [to continue]… then we would have broken an even more important promise — making sure that Americans gain access to health care that doesn’t leave them one illness away from financial ruin.
"So the bottom line is, is that we are making the insurance market better for everybody."
Video recordings of past speeches by Obama don't support this notion, however. One video that was posted to Youtube depicts 36 instances that Obama stated that people with current health insurance would be able to keep it. No mention is made of only keeping it if it hasn't changed.
Additionally, a recent investigation by NBC News revealed that the administration has known since 2010 that massive amounts insurance cancellations would occur due to Obamacare.
Source: Examiner.com
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