Anyone paying close attention to the ACA scam knew the president’s assurance that the Obamacare-forced cancelations would be confined to only 5% of the population was another bold-faced lie, but now we have the smoking gun.

As Andrew McCarthy reported in his NRO piece, “Obama’s ‘5 Percent’ Con Job,” the administration’s own actions and documents expose its continued, deliberate manipulation and deception of the American people.

Obama’s claim that unwelcome cancelations are confined to the individual-insurance market is another brazen lie. In the weekend column, I link to the excellent work of Powerline’s John Hinderaker, who has demonstrated that, for over three years, the Obama administration’s internal estimates have shown that most Americans who are covered by “employer plans” will also lose their coverage under Obamacare. Mind you, 156 million Americans get health coverage through their jobs.

Hinderaker cites the June 17, 2010 Federal Register, which contains a chart showing 39-69% of employer plans would lose their grandfather status by 2013. As McCarthy points out, while Obama was repeatedly promising only individually-insured Americans would be affected, his own administration had estimated as many as 7 out of 10 employer-insured Americans would lose their plans. And for small business-insured Americans, the administration estimated 49% would lose their plans.

Avik’s eagle eye also catches that, even as Obama was spinning on Thursday about how his broken promise affects only the teeny-weeny individual-insurance market, his administration was telling a much different story to state insurance commissioners. In a letter about Obama’s proposed “fix,” the head of the relevant consumer-information office referred to “all individuals and small businesses that received a cancelation or termination notice with respect to coverage” (emphasis added).

The Justice Department came to the same conclusions about the widespread impact of the grandfathering clause as those who have actually bothered to read and honestly project the effects of the law. The Justice Department's conclusions from information provided to it in an Oct 17 Dept. of Health and Human Services brief:

The [ACA’s] grandfathering provision’s incremental transition does not undermine the government’s interests in a significant way. [Citing, among other sources, the Federal Register.] Even under the grandfathering provision, it is projected that more group health plans will transition to the requirements under the regulations as time goes on. Defendants have estimated that a majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end of 2013.  

The Justice Department itself concluded that “a majority of group health plans” will be lost by 2013. That’s not the 5% sliver of the nation's policies Obama promised to the American people last week. As McCarthy said on The Kelly File Monday, “This is about as insidious as it gets.” McCarthy takes it even further, calling for a criminal investigation:

Obamacare is a massive fraudulent scheme. A criminal investigation should be opened. Obviously, the Obama Justice Department will not do that, but the House of Representatives should commence hearings into the offenses that have been committed in the president’s deception of the American people.

Another lie and another smoking gun. This law is going down in flames, and taking the president along with it.