How is Obamacare not a disaster for the Democratic party? (revised)

[Ms. Toad]

156. It actually isn't.

If the insurance companies were not permitted to offer their policies any more because the law prohibited them (or are required to change them), then the right wing is correct. Obama lied.

He didn't.

The policies they have been offering may still be offered. They do not have to tweak them. All they have to do is to keep offering them.

And some of those policies were not junk policies - they were good solid policies which people can no longer obtain. And even the ones which you classify as junk had their uses - I used some of them for a period of time. People wanted to keep those policies without change - so buying the right wing meme that they are prohibited because they don't meet current standards isn't accurate, and feeds the noise which is being heard by legislators, that the policies were dropped because the ACA does not require them to be offered (or requires that they be changed). Both of which are not true.

"You may continue to offer that policy" (what the law says) is very different from "You cannot offer that policy unless you change it" (the right wing frame)