>> I know of several where that was not the case. Now that could be insurance companies using the ACA to cancel policies that were not financially beneficial to them and when the extension was recently approved they offered those same policies for another year at a 200-250% increase in cost to the insured in order to maintain their financial objectives.

I agree with both of your comments here. Truth will out. It already has in several cases, e.g. a cheap Kaiser policy for past employees that dates back to the '80s and is out of sync with the market, relied on "Blame Obama" for the insurer to do something it was too embarrassed to do otherwise.

If you have to choose, why choose to believe the President told a crazy lie rather than believing that insurers put themselves first. Market commentators would say that insurers are meant to do that, so the alternative concept makes even less sense.