No, the fact that the Obamacare administration knew isn’t a shocker — unless, of course, you were either a blinded progressive ideologue who didn’t realize that Obama would have no trouble shooting his footsoldiers once they’d fulfilled their purpose of selling this pile of shit; or were one of those who continued to insist Obama was a garden-variety liberal Democrat who, though he differed with us on policy, nevertheless had what he believed were the best interests of the country at heart, a good man who simply didn’t agree with the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, the separation of powers, checks and balances, enumerated powers, or precedent, agitating for fundamental transformation with the same and equally valid zeal as those of us who have long held that “elections have consequences” doesn’t mean “elections alter the Constitution” (in both cases marking you as something of a naive or opportunistic moron) — but rather, the fact that it is NBC who is reporting this, now that’s the shocker:

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.”

None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date — the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example — the policy would not be grandfathered.

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.

Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,” was still saying in 2012, “If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.”

“This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” said  Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms. Laszewski estimates that 80 percent of those in the individual market will not be able to keep their current policies and will have to buy insurance that meets requirements of the new law, which generally requires a richer package of benefits than most policies today.

The White House does not dispute that many in the individual market will lose their current coverage, but argues they will be offered better coverage in its place, and that many will get tax subsidies that would offset any increased costs.

— Which is a direct contradiction to the promise that if you liked your policy you could keep it.  Because you’re actually getting something better, we’re now told, you should thank Obama, no criticize him.  He misled you to make your lives better.  For your own good — and for the Greater Good. And that took guts!  In fact, it is the very definition of leadership!  The ends justify the means.  So stop your carping and count your blessings, rubes.  Obama has taken to wearing this new crown of thorns so that you may not suffer.  Bless him.

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Today, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about the president’s promise that consumers would be able to keep their health care. “What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage, minimum services that every insurance plan has to provide,” Carney said. “So it’s true that there are existing healthcare plans on the individual market that don’t meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act.

Other experts said that most consumers in the individual market will not be able to keep their policies. Nancy Thompson, senior vice president of CBIZ Benefits, which helps companies manage their employee benefits, says numbers in this market are hard to pin down, but that data from states and carriers suggests “anywhere from 50 to 75 percent” of individual policy holders will get cancellation letters. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, who chairs the health committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, says that estimate is “probably about right.” She added that a few states are asking insurance companies to cancel and replace policies, rather than just amend them, to avoid confusion.

A spokesman for America’s Health Plans says there are no precise numbers on how many will receive cancellations letters or get notices that their current policies don’t meet ACA standards. In both cases, consumers will not be able to keep their current coverage.

Those getting the cancellation letters are often shocked and unhappy.

Ron Johnson is proposing a bill — which the House will take up — making “if you like your plan you can keep it,” a promise made on countless occasions by the President and well documented in both audio and video form as part of his push to sell the law that still remains incredibly unpopular with the American public, into law, effectively killing ObamaCare by denying it the necessary enrollment to fund what is, at base, a health insurance welfare system based around wealth redistribution and client favoritism.

As a result, it won’t pass — and will show those Americans with their eyes open just how far the Democrats (and some Republicans) are willing to go to make sure this monstrosity of governmental power and revenue gets set in place institutionally.

The President lied.  Those who backed him lied — or else were misled.  Some are calling Obama out, now that they’ve seen what is actually happening.  Others, though, are doubling down, telling us that what we heard Obama say isn’t really what he said — that Obama meant you can keep your health insurance coverage and your doctors, just not specifically:  instead, he meant you will be eligible for his insurance plans, and, provided your greedy doctors didn’t turn on you, there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t be there for you, too.

Those people have no shame, no scruples, and are in the business now of protecting their egos from the huge lesson it should be learning about who it believed and what led it to do so.

That, too, is no shocker.  In fact, it’s as entirely predictable as was ObamaCare’s inevitable failure to meet any of the promises made in its sales pitch.