Barack Obama last night issued a deeply personal 'mea culpa' for the botched roll-out of his health care reforms as the signature achievement of his presidency threatened to be derailed by technical glitches and a broken campaign promise.
"I am not a perfect man and I will not be a perfect president, but I'll wake up every single day working as hard as I can on behalf of Americans," said Mr Obama, as he issued an unusually abject apology for "fumbling" the implementation of his ObamaCare plan.
The launch of the reforms have been both a political and personal disaster for Mr Obama who has been accused of misleading the American public by repeatedly pledging that everyone who had already had health insurance would not be affected by ObamaCare.
However his oft-repeated campaign pledge – "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" – has come back to bite Mr Obama as it emerged that millions of Americans were having their health care plans cancelled this month, contrary to his assurances. » | Peter Foster, US Editor | Thursday, November 14, 2013
