No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.” Of course the insurance companies wouldn’t have had to change plans if it hadn’t been for Obamacare. White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett tweeted Monday night: “FACT: Nothing in # Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. This can lead to a death spiral as administration officials make bold assertions to distract from the current challenges. When the website doesn’t work and the promises of 20 are revised, questions of credibility infect everything the administration says. The benefits of the law were strung out over time, making it harder for people to recognize a payoff. “Trust me” claims clash with people’s mistrust of politicians and government programs. The president’s message about his signature law has always been: It gets better, I promise. Fair enough, but the president’s claim about keeping coverage was always about more than a sliver of people signing up for Obamacare which is why it has the ability to resonate beyond the audience directly affected by it. “You would think in some of the coverage over the last several days we were talking about 75 percent,” he said. The president’s press secretary, Jay Carney, pointed this out several times in his daily briefing Tuesday to put the controversy in perspective. The matter at issue here only affects the 5 percent of the population that buys health care in the individual market, compared to the 80 percent who get health care through their companies. In others, like this argument over keeping your old health care, the failure of the site is weakening the administration’s ability to engage in those old debates. In some cases that simply gives Republicans new lines of attack. What started as a website debacle is growing into a relitigation of the underlying operation. The Affordable Care Act passed with cracks and inconsistencies that are now re-emerging in the context of the website’s bad launch.
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