A group that coordinated health care messaging among scores of top Obamacare advocates repeatedly pushed the false Democratic promise that all Americans could keep their health insurance plans and doctors under the law and continued to do so as late as last year.
The Herndon Alliance was one of the most prominent Democratic messaging organizations during the legislative fight over Obamacare. It pushed talking points to a who’s who of liberal groups that support the law.
The Center for American Progress, the AARP, the Service Employees International Union, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and MoveOn.org are all listed among the group’s 176 partners.
Herndon has repeatedly advised those groups and individuals through talking points memos posted on its website to promise American health care consumers that Obamacare will not disrupt their health care or health insurance.
“When President Barack Obama says Americans can maintain their ‘choice’ of doctors and insurance plans, he is using a Herndon strategy for wringing fear out of a system overhaul,” Politico noted in a 2009 piece on the group.
At this point, what difference does it make? Our “leaders” are posturing on Capitol Hill as the country’s economy and healthcare system burn.