why choose to believe the President told a crazy lie rather than believing that insurers look after themselves.

John, are you intentionally going down this road, to see if you can prompt someone (like me) to make a strong statement that can allow someone else (and I think we both know who it might be) to make some outlandish Grover-style claim?

What is rather obvious here is that Obama told the lie, KNOWING he could count on certain actions by insurers (some by choice and some because their hand had been forced)....and knowing he could count on others vilifying the insurance companies.

This is not unlike the stories (and they were stories) fabricated around the time of the sequester, knowing that some would eventually blame the political right. (Though that partly backfired on him)

It's pure manipulation by the president