Article by By Greg Richter
Comedian and liberal political commentator Bill Maher says
President Barack Obama should have been upfront that people would lose
the health insurance they like under the Affordable Care Act.
But Maher believes that if he had, Obamacare likely would never have passed.
"I don't think Obama should have lied to people," Maher said Tuesday on CNN's Piers Morgan Live. Host
Morgan, a supporter of Obamacare and native of Great Britain where
healthcare is provided by the government, agreed with Maher that Obama's
repeated promise was "a barefaced lie."
Republican politicians and conservative pundits alike said Obama
wasn't being honest when he said that his signature healthcare plan
would allow anyone who liked his or her insurance policy to keep it.
Rules written after the bill passed made virtually all the
"grandfathered" policies illegal.
"The thing passed by this much," Maher said holding his thumb and
forefinger inches apart. Had Obama told people that many of them would
lose the insurance they like it wouldn't have had a chance, he admitted.
Maher also doubts Obama is being truthful when he says he was unaware the United States was spying on the leaders of allied countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The White House's insistence that Obama was out of the loop is "not
credible and not excusable," Maher said. "I thought he was the detail
guy."
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