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The latest shrill column on "Obamacare," columnist Charles Krauthammer claims to have found a moment of clarity: the future unavailability of some insurance plans that the president said people would be allowed to keep.



Here's a moment of truth that Krauthammer might have found even more clarifying: last week on a talking head TV show, Raffi Williams, Deputy Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee, was asked what the Republican ideas were to help young people. "What I'm advising young people to do," he said, "is to go get a job that gives you health care."



That was it. From the start, conservatives have been lying about the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Congress greatly reduced the funding to design and refine the website. They encouraged Republican governors to not set up state-run exchanges (most of which are working fine) or accept Medicaid funding, tried to dismantle the implementation of the law, and actively encouraged young people to not sign up for ANY insurance rather than participate.



They have also trotted out purported horror stories of individuals who have lost their non-compliant plans, many of which have been fact checked and found to be instances of for-profit insurers trying to scare the uninformed into more expensive plans than ones they could find on the exchanges.



These people cannot be trusted.



- DAVID VARNER, Granby