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Obamacare PR push goes silent
politico ^ | Dec. 31, 2014 | Joanne Kenen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aca; obamacare
And, the employer mandate goes into effect today, which means more economic chaos.
1 posted on 01/01/2015 8:07:01 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Yep, huge new group of people are now going to get hit with it.


2 posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:17 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

Right between the eyes.


3 posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:37 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: PROCON

They know that they can’t put Lipstick on this PIG. Voters will now see all the faults in this mandate.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 8:37:44 AM PST by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: PROCON

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.


5 posted on 01/01/2015 8:42:01 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: PROCON
PR for Obamacare for the past year has mostly been to call anyone claiming to have been harmed by it a liar. That's right up to the elite's most prestigious propagandists, Reid in the Senate and the beatified-in-his-own-mind time Krugman. How inconvenient for him that his own editors failed to spike the story several weeks ago about the woman whose deductible had risen so much that she could not continue care she had received previously. And Schumer.. Schumer.. the traitor to his class, telling the truth even as traumatized leftists huddled in their dark corners the day after mid-terms. None of which gets any mention in this agitprop from Politico.
6 posted on 01/01/2015 8:44:39 AM PST by gusopol3
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The only people happy with their coverage are the poor who are subsidized

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.

7 posted on 01/01/2015 8:50:28 AM PST by gusopol3
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Obamacare employer mandate takes effect today

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/obamacare_employer_mandate_takes_effect_today.html


8 posted on 01/01/2015 8:59:07 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: yldstrk

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?


9 posted on 01/01/2015 9:16:54 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: PROCON

What’s to sell? It is mandated by law.


10 posted on 01/01/2015 10:00:48 AM PST by Organic Panic
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“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.


11 posted on 01/01/2015 10:22:44 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: PROCON

All I know for certain is our gop-e/rino leadership will not do a single thing to eliminate any part of it.


12 posted on 01/01/2015 11:14:16 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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“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?


13 posted on 01/01/2015 8:12:40 PM PST by Hardens Hollow (Formerly yorkiemom. I couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow. Join us!)
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To: Hardens Hollow

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


14 posted on 01/01/2015 8:38:17 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: PROCON

“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.


15 posted on 01/02/2015 6:41:24 AM PST by Hardens Hollow (Formerly yorkiemom. I couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow. Join us!)
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To: yldstrk

There is not one example of someone that had coverage before Ocare that has better coverage now.


16 posted on 01/02/2015 6:42:29 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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I agree. obamacare is a socialist scheme to force those that can pay to pay for everybody’s care.


17 posted on 01/02/2015 6:49:03 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: PROCON

Sing for Change Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA#t=48


18 posted on 01/02/2015 2:47:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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