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Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed that former President Barack Obama was "remarkably" forthcoming in how he pursued his legislative agenda, including on healthcare, but omitted Obama's key promise to let people keep their healthcare plans if they like them.

In an op-ed published Monday, Krugman accused Republicans of repeatedly failing to pass a new healthcare bill because of their "dishonesty" in their criticism of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

"Given this history, the Republican health care disaster was entirely predictable," he wrote. "You can't expect good or even coherent policy proposals from a party that has spent decades embracing politically useful lies and denigrating expertise."

He said that by contrast, Obama was "remarkably clearheaded and honest about its policies. In particular, it was always clear what the A.C.A. was supposed to do and how it was supposed to do it and it has, for the most part, worked as advertised."

Obama's promised repeatedly, from 2009 to 2013, that the new law would not disrupt the insurance coverage many Americans already had and were satisfied with.

"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it," Obama had said.

In 2013, the fact-checking website PolitiFact said that promise was the political lie of the year because, the website said, "the promise was impossible to keep."

"[T]his fall," PolitiFact wrote in 2013, "as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama's breezy assurances were wrong."

Obama himself apologized for the unkept promise.

"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he said in an interview on NBC.

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