Posted on 01/01/2015 8:07:01 AM PST by PROCON
Health care reform advocates who struggled for decades to pass Obamacare left the job half-undone.
They failed to sell it. They also underestimated the unrelenting intensity and duration of the opposition that makes the law so vulnerable to legislative and legal challenges even now, nearly five years after its passage.
The White House and its allies are trying fresh messaging strategies for 2015 enrollment, including a lower-key sales pitch and narratives from real people who are happy with their coverage. Those success stories didn’t exist before coverage began one year ago.
Yet the messaging missteps and rhetorical guerrilla war since 2010 have taken their toll. Obamacare is now working better — but it’s still not popular. Come January, it will be under renewed attack by the incoming Republican majority in Congress, a majority attained partly by the GOP’s persistent opposition to the health care law.
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Yep, huge new group of people are now going to get hit with it.
Right between the eyes.
They know that they can’t put Lipstick on this PIG. Voters will now see all the faults in this mandate.
The only people happy with their coverage are the poor who are subsidized. The reason they are happy is the coverage is free.
The rest of us like that the kids can stay on until 26, and the 6 covered doctor visits annually, but the high price sucks. I pay for 2015 over 600 a month for disaster health insurance, $3,000 deductible.
They won't be happy when the doctors they're supposed to go to drop them because the inflated fees that Zeke Emanuel put in for the first couple of years get slashed by 40%, making it impossible to pay the office rent. But Gruber will save the financing , just ask Governor Shumlin.
Obamacare employer mandate takes effect today
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/obamacare_employer_mandate_takes_effect_today.html
Why would anyone be happy with keeping their children on their health insurance eight years past the age they legally become adults? I mean isn’t that a governmental incentive to delay maturity?
What’s to sell? It is mandated by law.
“They failed to sell it.”
Yeah, but not for not trying with all their might. Their problem of course is that very few people are going to buy a bowl of poop just because you tell ‘em that it’s chocolate ice cream, no matter how hard you try to SELL it to them.
Despite Gruber’s stated beliefs to the contrary, most people really AREN’T stupid enough to buy a bowl of poop, no matter what you tell them is in the bowl.
All I know for certain is our gop-e/rino leadership will not do a single thing to eliminate any part of it.
“The rest of us like that the kids can stay on until 26, and the 6 covered doctor visits annually...”
What’s the 6 covered doctor visits?
oh there are like 6 well check visits covered I thought, but I could be wrong since I am healthy and never go to the doctor
“Come January, it will be under renewed attack by the incoming Republican majority in Congress, a majority attained partly by the GOP’s persistent opposition to the health care law.”
They were also put in because they opposed amnesty, but the RINOs voted to fund it.
The cowards won’t do a thing.
There is not one example of someone that had coverage before Ocare that has better coverage now.
I agree. obamacare is a socialist scheme to force those that can pay to pay for everybody’s care.
Sing for Change Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA#t=48
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