You are so right, but what you say doesn't make a good soundbite, or even a good quote from their handbook.  The intention of the law was to allow everyone to keep their existing coverage and providers, but little did the President and Congress know that the insurers and providers had other ideas.  It was an unforeseen consequence that should have been prevented through legislation, along with the ability of those same insurers to raise rates at will.  The insurance companies and the providers (including Big Pharma) took advantage of the law to fleece the people, and that is not what the President or Congress had intended.  Technically, none of this constituted a "lie."