Former presidential nominee Mitt Romney says President Obama was knowingly “dishonest” when he repeatedly promised Americans could keep their current insurance under ObamaCare.
“I think the president understood — it’s now quite well documented that his administration, he understood — that a lot of people would lose their insurance,” Romney said Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
“They knew that and yet said, ‘Well, you can keep your insurance, period.’ And that was wrong,” the 2012 Republican nominee said.
Romney added the lie will damage the president’s second term.
“The real problem with the president’s plan is not just the rollout,” he said. “The real problem that the president has is a broken promise, is dishonesty. That’s, of course, what’s really striking at the heart of his term. The whole foundation of his second term, I think, is in jeopardy as a result of that . . . It’s dishonest. What starts twisted, stays twisted.
“Ultimately, people know the systems are going to work, they’re frustrated they’re not working, but when the systems are working, people will still lose — and already have — millions of people losing their insurance they were promised they would not,” Romney said. “They’re being asked to buy policies they don’t want at prices they can’t afford.”
ObamaCare was patterned in part after the health-care reform enacted in Massachusetts while Romney was governor. Romney said that program was launched more slowly in the Bay State and that this allowed officials to work out the glitches.