Revised Obamacare talking point: You 'may' be able to keep your doctor

We all remember how President Obama and countless other Obamacare supporters insisted that with the 2010 health care law, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Conservatives were doubtful then, and now we're once again being vindicated.

TheWeeklyStandard's Jeryl Bier highlights a subtle yet striking change in rhetoric coming out of the Department of Health and Human Services these days:

While there has been sniping back and forth between the administration and its detractors about the real-world application and implementation of Obamacare, the new Healthcare.gov website has taken some of the mystery out of the controversy.  And President Obama and his administration do not fare well in this latest "reality check."  Among the questions that HHS recently added to the website: "Can I keep my own doctor?":

"Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor."  The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through certain networks, just as in the current system.  And only plans that existed in their current form on March 23, 2010, are even eligible to be "kept." The vast majority of plans will be new, subject to a raft of new regulations, requirements, and restrictions.

Now that Health and Human Services has confirmed that the suspicions of Obamacare opponents were justified, the Obama administration will have some explaining to do to friends and foes of the law alike. Because now everyone is finding out "what's in it."