So....this is ALL the fault of insurers. In the 30+ times that Obama stated, "if you like your plan, you can keep it.....if you like your plan, you don't need to do anything" (which he stated as recently as late Sept 2013), you don't feel that a single time he could also have "shown a little more effort to present this in advance"....

This entire "they were lousy plans anyway" will go down in history as the most convenient, after-the-fact pretext. Did some plans suck? Sure. But a large number of people have needless had their lives either disrupted or turned upside down. How many more people have to suffer for the sake of Barack Obama's growth?

This was a pure lie - with intentions. A question has been raised by some of the more curious media personalities..."how can a man who is so good at public speaking, do such an incompetent job at making people aware of any specifics". There's an answer - it's not incompetence. He knew precisely what he was doing.

He knows that his "pleas" to insurance companies and state laws (to get them to take late payments, to get them to reinstate plans) are just lame fixes that can't be enforced.

Now...there are two smoking guns, either one conclusive, that demonstrate Obama's 30+ strong statements of "if you like your plan" were a lie.

First, the policy people warning the White House about the line "you can keep your plan", only to be overridden by the political campaign people. This story has been confirmed.

Second....the meeting between Eric Cantor (and others) and Obama in 2010, where Obama stated the following:

Since you asked me a question, let me respond. The 8 to 9 million people you refer to that might have to change their coverage -- keep in mind out of the 300 million Americans that we are talking about -- would be folks who the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, estimates would find the deal in the exchange better -- would be a better deal. So, yes, they would change coverage because they got more choice and competition.

This was a direct quote. You can find the C-SPAN coverage of the White House Health Summit to watch the entire exchange.

Draw your own conclusions.