BREAKING NEWS – Des Moines, Iowa – “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” That familiar pledge, made repeatedly over several years by former President Barack Obama, was named the 2013 “Lie of the Year” by fact-checking website Politifact, as millions of individuals lost their private insurance — and had to switch to costlier options — due to changes mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Joe Biden unveiled his own health care plan, and issued a similar-sounding promise while speaking at a presidential forum sponsored by AARP. “I give people the option,” Biden said, after dismissing his opponents’ “Medicare-for-all” proposals, which would eliminate private health insurance entirely. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” When he was told by his staff that his statement mirrored President Obama’s 2013 “Lie of the Year”, he attempted to walk it back later that day in a press conference. “There has been a lot of confusion on what I said earlier,” the former VP began. “I said health care plan but I meant health ‘car’ plan. Thus, I was not referring to people, I was referring to auto insurance… or something like that.”
