<p>Former President Barack Obama complained on Tuesday that his administration had been forced to deal with &#8220;misinformation&#8221; when it came to the Affordable Care Act — and then came dangerously close to repeating the misinformation he had helped to spread.</p>
<p>Obama was on hand for President Joe Biden&#8217;s rollout of his plan to expand Obamacare, as Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/obama-returns-white-house-tout-healthcare-law-with-biden-2022-04-05/">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Obama jokingly referred to Biden as &#8220;vice president&#8221; before correcting himself, inspiring a salute from Biden, then offered broad praise of the Affordable Care Act, whose passage he described as a &#8220;high point&#8221; of his time in office.</span></em></p>
<p class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H" data-testid="paragraph-4"><em>&#8220;If you can get millions of people health coverage and better protection, it is, to quote a famous American, a pretty &#8230; big deal,&#8221; Obama said to hoots of laughter from the crowd, referencing an off-color Biden remark picked up by a hot mic when the law was signed.</em></p>
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<p data-testid="paragraph-4">But Obama also noted that there were a few clouds surrounding the Affordable Care Act — which became law in 2010 — and he blamed Republicans for stirring up doubt and spreading &#8220;misinformation&#8221; about what the law would actually do.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Obama says &quot;There was a lot of misinformation flying around&quot; when Obamacare was going through Congress.</p>
<p>I can think of one: &quot;If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/x03tUoWMAK">pic.twitter.com/x03tUoWMAK</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1511403547602165762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Because the majority of Americans did have health care, some people naturally worried that they would lose what they had,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The media was skeptical of past failures, there was a lot of misinformation, to say the least, flying around. And it&#8217;s fair to say that most Republicans showed little interest in working with us to get anything done.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former president did not mention his own part in <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/obama-lies-republican-predictions-about-obamacare-ben-shapiro/">spreading misinformation</a> about the law, as Greg Price noted in his tweet: &#8220;I can think of one: &#8216;If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama alluded to the fact that some Americans had been concerned that they might lose their health care plans or be forced to choose new doctors — both of which turned out to be well-founded fears — but he did not mention the numerous times that he had falsely assured the people that was not the case.</p>
<p>In fact, Obama repeated the false claim &#8220;if you like your doctor/health care plan, you can keep your doctor/health care plan&#8221; so many times that Politifact awarded it with the auspicious title &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; in 2013.</p>
<p>As Politifact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,&#8221; President Barack Obama said — many times — of his landmark new law.</em></p>
<p><em>But the promise was impossible to keep.</em></p>
<p><em>So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.</em></p></blockquote>

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