{"id":4004,"date":"2025-08-12T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:37:27","slug":"politifact-lie-of-the-year-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Politifact Lie Of The Year OBAMACARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"50ogp\" data-offset-key=\"p98h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"p98h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"p98h-0-0\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/12\/politifact-lie-of-the-year-if-you-like-your-healthcare-plan-you-can-keep-it-179521<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"50ogp\" data-offset-key=\"23qht-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"23qht-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"23qht-0-0\">PolitiFact 2013 &#8216;Lie of the Year&#8217;: &#8216;If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"50ogp\" data-offset-key=\"5c1vo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5c1vo-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5c1vo-0-0\">The fact-checking organization PolitiFact declared President Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it&#8221; as the &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; on Thursday.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/12\/politifact-lie-of-the-year-if-you-like-your-healthcare-plan-you-can-keep-it-179521<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"story-intro format-s\">\n<div class=\"summary\"><header>\n<h1>PolitiFact &#8216;Lie of the Year&#8217;: &#8216;If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it&#8217;<\/h1>\n<\/header><footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By DYLAN BYERS<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2013-12-12 16:44:41\">12\/12\/2013 04:44 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fact-checking organization PolitiFact declared President Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it&#8221; as the &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America\u2019s health insurance system,&#8221; the editors of the Tampa Bay Times side project wrote in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2013\/dec\/12\/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it\/\">announcement<\/a>. &#8220;But the promise was impossible to keep.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/12\/politifact-lie-of-the-year-if-you-like-your-healthcare-plan-you-can-keep-it-179521 PolitiFact 2013 &#8216;Lie of the Year&#8217;: &#8216;If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it&#8217; The fact-checking organization PolitiFact declared President Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it&#8221; as the &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; on Thursday. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/12\/politifact-lie-of-the-year-if-you-like-your-healthcare-plan-you-can-keep-it-179521 PolitiFact &#8216;Lie of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}