Posted on 08/19/2010 4:56:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
New Dem message: 'Improve' health care, don't talk cost August 19, 2010
Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise to "improve it."
The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by Families USA — one of the central groups in the push for the initial legislation. The call was led by a staffer for the Herndon Alliance, which includes leading labor groups and other health care allies. It was based on polling from three top Democratic pollsters: John Anzalone, Celinda Lake and Stan Greenberg.
The confidential presentation, available in full here and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging the failure of their predictions that the health care legislation would grow more popular after its passage, as its benefits became clear and rhetoric cooled. Instead, the presentation is designed to win over a skeptical public, and to defend the legislation — and in particular the individual mandate — from a push for repeal.
The presentation concedes that groups typically supportive of Democratic causes — people under 40, non-college-educated women and Hispanic voters — have not been won over by the plan. Indeed, it stresses repeatedly that many are unaware that the legislation has passed, an astonishing shortcoming in the White House's all-out communications effort.
"Straightforward ‘policy’ defenses fail to [move] voters’ opinions about the law," says one slide. "Women in particular are concerned that health care law will mean less provider availbality — scarcity [is] an issue."
The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed.
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It’s not Death Care!
It’s.....
It’s.....
SAMURAI-Saracen Health Care: The Reality Show!
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Pollsters are what's needed to make health care better in America.
Doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, upper management of pharmaceutical companies? Nah. They're biased. Can't trust 'em. They lie about everything. Forget 'em.
The involvement of John Anzalone, Celinda Lake and Stan Greenberg tells me that Obamacare is going to turn out to be beyond it's maker's wildest dreams.
I thought it was free.
Got back up?
I don't believe for a moment that the obambi, reid, pelosi takeover of our health care would "abandon" their socialist ideals. Somethings wrong here.
All doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and upper management people in pharmaceutical companies are hard core liberal democrats?
It is, all you have to do is give up your personal freedoms. ; )
To quote Han Solo: “Who’s gonna fly it, kid? You?”
SAMURAI-Saracen Health Care: The Reality Show!
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losers must commit seppuku!!!!
You mean there are more costs? /sarc
That chart is a perfect metaphor for obama.....look closely and see that obama is about as far from the people as possible.
First thing we have to do in 2012, is to BURN that whole thing to the ground.
Halt everything we can in 2010 and then BURN that whole damn law, scatter the ashes I don’t care where.
Good plan: don’t talk cost when their plan will cost so many lives.
Golly, can we include the rules of Honor in that.... those acting dishonorably in government commit Seppuku?
Now that right there would suddenly make government REAL freaking efficient don’t you think? Suddenly government workers would be doing their jobs honorably instead of gumming up the system with their un-fireable useless positions.... what a freakin concept!
It won’t work — it’s clear to most thinking people that Obamacare will ruin health care in the US, especially for seniors, who need it the most.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
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