Barack Obama Alters Broken Pledge: You Can Keep Your Insurance Plan, If It Hasn't Changed

Promise was a lie

President Obama has added a caveat to his oft-repeated pledge that if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.

Speaking to more than 200 supporters on Monday night in Washington, Obama added some significant verbiage to his declaration– "if you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance"–that was standard part of his public pitch on his signature health care legislation dating back to 2009.