HHS is Paying Google with Taxpayer Money to Alter 'Obamacare' Search Results

Weekly Standard ^ | January 3, 2011 | Jeffry Anderson

[La Lydia]

The brazenness of the Obama administration never ceases to amaze. Try typing "Obamacare" into Google, and you'll find that the first entry is now the Obama administration's www.healthcare.gov. If you don't particularly like that result, you'll probably hate the fact that you're paying for it. You'll get the same paid-for result if you type in "Obamacare facts," "Obamacare summary," "Obamacare info," "Obamacare overview," "Obamacare questions," "Obamacare explanation," "Obamacare basics," "Obamacare pros and cons," "Obamacare and elderly," and even "Obamacare and abortion." For each of these search terms, and many others, the Obama administration's site comes up first, as a paid entry. But it doesn’t come up if you type in "ObamaCare repeal."

Politico's Ben Smith, in a post entitled "HHS Buys 'ObamaCare,'" quotes an official from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who confirms that this clear attempt to influence what Americans read about Obamacare does, indeed, represent your tax dollars at work: "'We are using a bunch of search term[s] to help point people to HealthCare.gov. [It's] [p]art of our online efforts to help...

[La Lydia]

Iif you type in "health care," this is what you get:

Health care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Health or healthcare is the treatment and prevention of illness. Health care is delivered by professionals in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and ... Care in the United States - Care reform in the United States - Ranking - Care system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care - Cached - Similar ►

Home | HealthCare.gov Sep 23, 2010 ... Official government site provides information on finding insurance options, prevention, comparing care quality and understanding the new law ... Find Insurance Options - Understand the New Law - Individuals - Seniors www.healthcare.gov/ - Cached Health Care - The White House Sep 23, 2010 ... Health reform makes health care more affordable, holds insurers more accountable , expands coverage to all Americans and makes our health ...

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[lewislynn]

I don’t know why some of you who claim to hate liberals and the left continue to use Google.

[The Comedian]

Sergey and Larry are the brothers Damien never knew. Was Eric Schmidt this evil when he was at Sun Microsystems?

He's been evil since at least 2008. Hard to tell before that date (from Wikipedia):

Eric Schmidt was an informal advisor to the Barack Obama presidential campaign and began campaigning the week of October 19, 2008, on behalf of the candidate.[23]

He had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the new Chief Technology Officer position which Obama created in his administration.[24] In announcing his endorsement for Obama, Eric Schmidt jokingly said that with his $1.00 salary, he would be getting a tax cut.[25]

After Obama won, Eric Schmidt was a member of President Obama's transition advisory board. He proposed that the easiest way to solve all of the United States' problems at once, at least in domestic policy, is by a stimulus program that rewards renewable energy and, over time, attempts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.[26]

He has since become a new member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST.[27]

I just don't understand how an excellent engineer and successful businessman can fall for this crap. Unless he's been compromised.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Silentgypsy]

There’s a very nice white paper on the new healthcare law on the Cato Institute’s website.

[Chode]

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[khnyny]

One of the best posts I’ve read in recent times on FR (imho) btw - I agree.

[Lazamataz]

I suck. :(

[La Lydia]

No, sweetie, you don’t suck. It is a simple mistake. Anyone could make it. :)

[Taxman]

I agree — RICO applies in spades for Obongo Boz Administration.

HST, try https://ixquick.com — “The world’s most private search engine.”

Mrs Taxman and I no longer use Google — to FReaking LIEberal!

[Taxman]

That is the OBONGO BOZO Administration!

[Eureka_Lead]

Forgot to add that I use scroogle to surf google

http://scroogle.org/

This limits the amount of data on your surfing search habits, it does not hide or remove them from the ISP your linked to, but it helps.

I think it may be time for a poor mans list of simple things to help those who wish to stunt the tracking of their web surfing habits...

Will start thinking of the list today and ttart a posting later this week...

EL

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[Lloyd227]

Ok, thanks... I didn’t bother taking time to play around with it, just searched on “Obamacare” as the posting said to. I don’t see anything nefarious other than the government using our tax dollars for “pay per click” sponsored advertising.

Nothing new about that, I use it myself for my business, but it’s hardly proper for tax money to be spent for what is clearly political PR campaigning.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I hope that Issa et al remember the ObamaCare Andy Griffith commercial and this further induced propaganda we pay for; in his investigations.

BTW:Someone also monkeyed with Obama Birth as if you google it now...you get the factcheck.org bogus crap first and foremost. This was not always this way.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

What happens when you type in googlewhore?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

It is most certainly nefarious.

It is one thing to use google to sell sunglasses it is quite another to use taxpayer money to force a government takeover of healthcare. The Andy Griffith ObamaCare commercial is another example of this absurd abuse.

No one believes factcheck.org, fightthesmears, Obama nor any one associated with him. So they are being sneaky and it is even beyond politics; it is abusive manipulation to force propaganda.

This is ludicrous!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1210/HHS_buys_ObamaCare.html

[TheThinker]

All the Republicans should say this phrase when talking about the repeal of Obamacare: "It has been ruled unconstitutional."

They can then add other points against it.

[Marty62]

I was thinking Praetorian.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

"ObamaCare has been ruled unconstitutional."

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

If you type Obama and click on news in Google daily;
It looks like Obama campaign media for Obama.

I just did it and they have many articles pimping Obama because Jon Stewart said Obama is the comeback kid.
(I suppose the media think if they post this enough that people will believe he made a comeback. Yet the joke is on them as the only comeback Obama has made is to the SMALL progressive commiecrat minority.

Also highlighted IN THE MSM news is Obama on AF1 returning from Hawaii saying he is offering an olive branch in peace to work with republicans.

Someone post where Obama said that there will be war if the republicans get majority. Those with half of a brain clearly realize Obama is only making peace so he can further blame republicans on doing nothing and appease any up and coming subpoena's.