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When Barack Obama’s barnstorming tour promoting the Affordable Care Act came to Portsmouth in 2009, he made Granite Staters this promise about Obamacare:
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
Obama’s pledge was smart politics. Every Democrat in the U.S. Senate, including freshman Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, voted to pass the massive government health care scheme.
The pledge was also a lie. In fact, the left-leaning PolitiFact project declared it 2013’s “Lie of the Year” — conveniently not until well after Obama won reelection the year before.
In the same speech, Obama also promised the people of Portsmouth, “I won’t sign a bill that adds to the deficit or the national debt.”
Since then, Obamacare has added tens of billions of dollars to the national debt, much of it thanks to the “emergency” increase in subsidies during COVID.
False claims about Obamacare have been part of the political conversation from the beginning. And the public statements from New Hampshire’s elected Democrats today show the tradition continues.
Shaheen, who brags about her efforts to add billions in enhanced Obamacare spending, has been the most aggressive member of the Granite State delegation.
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