The history of the American presidency is replete with misstatements, misrepresentations, and outright lies told by many of our presidents.

In 1973, Richard Nixon assured America that “I am not a crook,” when, in fact, he was.

In 1988, George H.W. Bush challenged Americans to “Read my lips: no new taxes,” and he eventually did raise taxes.

And how can we forget how Bill Clinton dug himself into a hole when he declared, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”?

But in my opinion, the grandaddy of all presidential lies came from the lips of the current president, Barack H. Obama, when he promised that Americans could keep the health insurance they liked when his Affordable Care Act would be enacted. And he uttered that canard over, and over, and over again.

Yeah, about that “you can keep your insurance. . .”

The New York Times — that liberal Paper of Record — is now reporting that more and more states are losing health insurers, leaving increasing numbers of states with only a single insurer.

As the NYT opened its article:

So much for choice. In many parts of the country, Obamacare customers will be down to one insurer when they go to sign up for coverage next year on the public exchanges.

Here is a map the NYT supplied depicting the number of insurers per state in 2016.

Here is a map showing the state insurers anticipated in 2017.

Two consulting firms, the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform and Avalere Health, both are reporting that 17 percent of Americans eligible for Obamacare will have only one insurer from which to choose. By comparison, only 2 percent had only one choice available last year.

Smack dab in the center of the map is my state of Kansas. I am one of those who was destined with only one choice as well.