Breaking News: Unrelentingly Dishonest Politician Has Been Dishonest With Us

I have said repeatedly - and over and over as well - that we elected (and then re-elected) an incompetent boob at best or a sinister serial liar at worst.  I have long believed the former, but am now firmly in the latter camp.  It has been frustrating but the best I can do is allow the results to hit the ground running.  An electorate deserves the bad government they vote for (unfortunately, those who don't vote for bad government are along for the ride).

Today from NBC News (NBC News!) we learn that the Obama administration knew that ObamaCare would cause millions of people to lose their health insurance.

Obama Admin Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance
By Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye
NBC News

President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.

Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”

Of course, they knew, because ObamaCare was designed to destroy the individual market.  Just a few million broken eggs on the way to a social justice omelette...