President Barack Obama said at a White House press conference today that he expected that 98 percent of Americans would either discover that his pledge that they could keep their health care plan under Obamacare was true or they would not care that it was false–because would get a better plan.
“My expectation was that for 98 percent of the American people either it genuinely wouldn’t change at all or they’d be pleasantly surprised with the options in the marketplace and that the grandfather clause would cover the rest,” said Obama.
That leaves 2 percent of the people, by the president’s calculation, for whom the pledge was false, period.
Obama also said that when he said people could keep their health-care plan if they liked it he was thinking, among others, of people in the government’s Medicaid and Medicare programs.
“So when I said you can keep your health care, I’m, you know, I’m looking at folks who’ve got employer based health care,” he said. “I’m looking at folks who’ve got Medicare and Medicaid. And that accounts for the vast majority of Americans.”
