ObamaCare KO’s 100,000 policies in New York state

"...When Obama ran for president in 2008, there were questions about his relationship with left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers. The Obama campaign responded to these accusations with the appalling tactic of asking the Justice Department to intervene against a conservative group running ads questioning the relationship between the two men. Once Obama was elected, New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote a book acknowledging Obama lied about the extent of his relationship to Ayers.

When Obama ran for president, he insisted that his primary opponent Hillary Clinton’s health care plan, which required an individual mandate to purchase health insurance, was too extreme, and this helped endear him to voters.

Once elected, he needed the individual mandate to make his own Rube Goldberg health plan work, so the mandate was included in Obamacare. When it was pointed out that the mandate was a huge and unpopular tax, he insisted it wasn’t—right up until it was decided this was the best legal argument in favor of the mandate’s constitutional validity.

And when Obama’s health care plan was explicitly designed to cancel the insurance policies of 1 out of every 20 Americans and dump them into a clunky government insurance system, Obama tried (and failed) to drum up support for the law by repeatedly claiming, “If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance. Period...”
—Weekly Standard