Obama Apologizes For Obamacare

By: Chuck Todd (NBC News)

President Obama said Thursday that he is "sorry" that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the Affordable Care Act, despite his promise that no one would have to give up a health plan they liked.

"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he told NBC News in an exclusive interview at the White House.

"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."

Obama’s comments come 10 days after NBC News’ Lisa Myers reported that the administration has known since the summer of 2010 that millions of Americans could lose their insurance under the law.  Obama has made repeated assurances that “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan” with Obamacare.

Consumers who buy insurance on their own — about  five percent of the population — are at risk of being forced off their current policies because their plans have changed and don’t meet the new standards of the Affordable Care Act.

Obama’s statement has been called into question as millions of Americans have gotten cancellation notices, effectively forcing them to enroll in a new plan either with their current insurer or through the government exchanges, in many cases at a higher rate.

Via: NBC News

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Obama: Don’t “Underestimate” The Damage I Will Do In A Second Term…

In a Rolling Stone interview previewed in Politico’s “Playbook” morning email, President Barack Obama reportedly told the Rolling Stone’s Douglas Brinkley that people shouldn’t “underestimate” what he can and will accomplish in a second term if elected.

“We’re going to have a full agenda in the second four years, but people shouldn’t underestimate how much we can get done,” Obama said.

In the Oct. 11 interview for the upcoming cover of Rolling Stone Obama pointed out that despite “the gridlock and the ugliness of the process here in Washington” his administration was able to get the healthcare reform bill passed, crack down on Wall Street (Dodd-Frank bill) and establish an entire new regulatory agency (Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, although either Obama or the Rolling Stone mistakenly called it the Consumer Finance Protection Agency in the preview).

“We passed health care – something that presidents have tried to do for 100 years, and we will implement it,” Obama said.

Obama’s incorrect comment about the history of healthcare reform in America notwithstanding (the first President to attempt to reform the healthcare system was FDR, and that was not until 1933), his assertion that he has a “full agenda” for the next four years undoubtedly comes as a surprise to nearly everyone who’s not working for the Obama campaign or swimming in the “Hope and Change” Kool-Aid.

Tuesday, President Obama released a 20 page glossy booklet with his ‘plan’ for a second-term. Or as Rep. Paul Ryan called it: “a slick comic book.” However, even liberals have criticized his new plan of being devoid of any new information.

And what was Obama’s agenda for a second term before he released his glossy ‘new’ plan?

Via: Red Alert Politics

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