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Of course not. Obama lied that one time!
Obama's "lie" wasn't even that much of a lie. "If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan." The vast majority of Americans with private insurance are on group plans and did keep their plan. Of those that saw changes, I would be willing to bet that the number of Americans that had to switch plans in the individual market following the ACA is not that much higher than the number of Americans in the private individual market that would have been forced to switch plans due to changes in the market on any given year prior to the ACA. I am not in anyway arguing that he was being completely honest when he made the claim, but in terms of lies, it was more of a half truth as compared to Trump who just invents **** on a daily basis. Politifact called it their "lie of the year" because he wasn't competing with someone like Trump. Obama's lie of the year would be like saying something was the crime of the century in Iceland - a crime but nothing on the crimes committed by real criminals.
The funny thing of course is that the previous few politifact "lies of the year" were largely Republican attacks on the ACA like the "Death Panels" claim or "A government takeover of health care".
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