Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) and Rep. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) appeared on Hannity Tuesday night to discuss their efforts to get the Obama administration to keep the infamous "If you like your plan you can keep your plan" promise.
Even former president Bill Clinton said earlier that Obama should keep the promise, which he made publicly at least 36 times.
"The Democratic Party should step forward to fix the mess they made with Obamacare, and President Obama should keep his promise," Cotton. "He clearly knew going back to the summer of 2010, that millions of Americans, tens of thousands of Arkansans, were going to lose their health insurance. And that's what's happening right now among individuals buying individual policies. But I'm starting to hear that small businesses are losing their policies as well, or see their premiums double or triple, or see their co-pays go up. We need to take action in the Senate and the House to make this right."
Johnson has introduced a bill called "If You Like Your Health Care Plan You Can Keep It" Act, named after Obama's repeated pledge, and is hoping to receive bipartisan support, particularly in light of legislators like Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), who has introduced similar legislation.
"Obamacare has already done a lot of structural damage to the insurance market," he said. "For example, high-risk pools are extinct. That couple with cancer in Wisconsin that is losing their coverage, seeing their premiums double in the exchanges, there's not much we can do about that, but we can try and limit the damage for millions of other Americans. That's why I believe Democrat senators need to do is step up the plate, and we need to try to honor the promises for as many Americans as possible."