New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie virtually called President Obama a liar as he denounced the misleading White House promises about the new health-care law.
“The real problem is that people weren’t told the truth,” Christie said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.”
“You can remember they were told that they would be able to keep their [insurance] polices if they like them,” he said. “And now you hear hundreds of thousands of people across the country being told they couldn’t.
“So the White House needs to square that with what was told to the American people and told to Congress beforehand,” the governor added. “And it doesn’t seem to square at the moment, but we’ll wait and see.”
The comments by Christie, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, came a day after the White House conceded that many consumers who have health insurance on the “individual market” will lose it because their policies don’t meet the standards of ObamaCare.
CBS reported that 800,000 people in New Jersey alone were getting notices that they can’t keep their current health plans.
Christie said it “wouldn’t have made a difference” if New Jersey had set up a state-run insurance exchange.
“What the federal government wanted us to do in the states was to take on this burden ourselves, without telling us how much it would cost or what authority we would have to actually run our exchanges,” he said.