"If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period.”
How serious was this lie, repeated by Barack Obama with such beguiling
regularity? Well, how would the Justice Department be dealing with it if
it had been uttered by, say, the president of an insurance company
rather than the president of the United States?
Justice Department guidelines, set forth in the U.S. Attorneys Manual, recommend prosecution for fraud in situations
involving “any scheme which in its nature is directed to defrauding a
class of persons, or the general public, with a substantial pattern of
conduct.” So, for example, if a schemer were intentionally to deceive
all Americans, or a class of Americans (e.g., people who had health
insurance purchased on the individual market), by repeating numerous
times — over the airwaves, in mailings, and in electronic announcements —
an assertion the schemer knew to be false and misleading, that would
constitute an actionable fraud — particularly if the statements induced
the victims to take action to their detriment, or lulled the victims
into a false sense of security." [National Review]
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