>>Obama's promise that an average family would save $2,500 a year was flat out wrong.

Re "keep your doctor" : a lot of misunderstanding revolves around the grandfathering provisions. Most of the inadequate plans did not automatically roll over on their anniversary and when they fell due in the ACA era, the insurers retired them. As is their sovereign right as private businesses. People were offered new plans that might not still allow the doctor they wanted- but that's not what Obama promised. Obviously he was saying the ACA itself would not force you to change plans or doctors- but he didn't mean that the ACA forced insurers to perpetuate your curent plan or guarantee access to your doctor forever. The ACA might not have passed if people thought he meant it burdened insurers in that fashion. He was called a liar for that one, but his debating club intention was clear enough IMHO. As for the savings: the ACA did allow 20 million more people to take insurance, and as Victor notes, medical inflation was lower than before the ACA. But the ACA is yet to achieve the savings envisaged (for example) from better IT systems that were expected to save a fortune. Savings are a long term game after that sort of investment and I'm not sure where the $2.5K came from, except perhaps that every other civilized nation pays at least that amount less per capita than the USA and leaves nobody out, so it ought to be achievable.

The difference I see is that the MSM didn't immediately brand him a liar or un-presidential when it appeared he was "wrong." Assuming they "got" what he meant- they did a poor job of explaining his debating club verbiage, which was just as much a disservice to Obama as they are to Trump today.