Obama’s ‘5 Percent’ Con Job It’s a 100 percent lie, according to the White House’s own figures.

◼ link - Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review Online

...We now discover even more evidence of how brazen Obama’s lies have been.... Obama’s claim that unwelcome cancellations are confined to the individual-insurance market is another brazen lie.

...while the president has been telling us that, under the vaunted grandfathering provision, all Americans who like their health-insurance plans will be able to keep them, “period,” his administration has been representing in federal court that most health plans would lose their “grandfather status” by the end of this year. Not just the “5 percent” of individual-market consumers, but close to all consumers — including well over 100 million American workers who get coverage through their jobs — have been expected by the president swiftly to “transition to the requirements under the [Obamacare] regulations.” That is, their health-insurance plans would be eliminated. They would be forced into Obamacare-compliant plans, with all the prohibitive price hikes and coercive mandates that “transition” portends.

Obamacare is a massive fraudulent scheme. A criminal investigation should be opened. Obviously, the Obama Justice Department will not do that, but the House of Representatives should commence hearings into the offenses that have been committed in the president’s deception of the American people.

◼ (Major Garrett) asked about Obama’s apparent ignorance of the problems with the Obamacare web site. Obama’s answers were weak, to say the least. But what I want to focus on here is the fact that that Obama answered the question about “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” by repeating the lie that the issue of policy cancellations relates only to the individual insurance market, which serves around 5% of the population. Obama makes this claim very clearly; there is no ambiguity in his answer. - John Hinderaker/Powerline