That has provided Republicans with an opening: they claim that Mr Obama intends to gut private health coverage by closing down the supposedly grandfathered schemes on technicalities.
Consider the centrepiece of his present environmental policy, the plan to clean up the state's so-called "grandfathered" industrial plants.Grandfathered plants, built before the state's Clean Air Act in 1971, are bigger polluters than newer ones, accounting for 36% of the chemicals Texas releases into the atmosphere each year.
And finally, it held that the government's stated compelling interests public health and gender equality are at once too broad and leave too many people out (ie, everyone working for companies with fewer than 50 people, religious institutions and employers with grandfathered plans).
They have, undeniably, been aided in that by the Obama's Administration's mishandling of the Web site and misstatements about grandfathered plans.
The Christians in a liquor store called Drinkies (the only one in Zamalek; no new licenses to sell alcohol have been issued in Egypt, they told me, in decades; existing shops are grandfathered in) were the only people I met who seemed really glad about the news.
But the number of grandfathered plans is decreasing, as employers continue to make benefit changes that pass on more health care costs to employees.
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office urged the F.D.A. to review all such grandfathered devices and assign them to low-, medium- or high-risk categories with commensurate oversight.
To see if you are in a grandfathered plan, check with your employer's benefits department.
With some grandfathered exceptions, Obamacare makes those kinds of plans illegal.
"My staff and I have insisted that employees should have their overall current compensation reduced to take into account the fact of these grandfathered payments," Mr. Feinberg said.
But there is an exception: individual grandfathered plans which are essentially plans that existed before March 23, 2010, and have generally remained the same, don't necessarily have to follow the new rule.
