Lie of the Year

Have you heard?  President Obama's statement "If you like your insurance, you can keep it" has been named Lie of the Year by Politifact. 

How about we take a closer look at this lie?

1. Can you really blame President Obama for insurance companies cancelling their plans?  Insurance companies have been cancelling plans for years, this is not new.  If a plan is cancelled, does it really matter how much you like your plan, of course you cannot keep it.  That sounds like common sense to me, not a lie.
2. Everybody who had their plan cancelled still has the opportunity to buy new insurance, they are not being shut out from obtaining health insurance.  Remember that the next time you hear an Anti-Obamacare ad spouting off about how many people lost their insurance. 
3. Are these junk insurance plans really worth saving anyways?  Most of them not worth the paper they are written on. 
4. What of all of the Republican lies about the Affordable Care Act over the past year?  How are they not just as egregious? 
5. Let's not forget that it was only about 2% of the population that had their plans cancelled, yet there were millions more who obtained healthcare for the first time, or no longer had to worry about pre-existing conditions or lifetime limits.  Far, far more people have benefited from the Affordable Care Act than have been harmed.  

To summarize, maybe the President could have phrased this comment better, but IMO calling it the "Lie of the Year" appears to have more to do with all the faux outrage the right has expressed about it rather than actual dishonesty.