WebMD’s healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds

Washington Times ^ | 11/13/13 | Jim McElhatton

[SoFloFreeper]

Two months before enrollment began in the Obamacare exchanges, the administration’s top health care official heaped praise on WebMD for launching an online resource to help Americans navigate the complex law...

... what neither Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius nor WebMD mentioned at the time was that the company, which millions of Americans regularly read for health news, also stood to earn millions of dollars from a federal contract to teach doctors about Obamacare.

[SoFloFreeper]

So Webmd got caught. You cannot tell me Team Obama isn't also using taxpayer money to payoff favorable coverage for their DISASTROUS REGIME.

[SoFloFreeper]

Somewhere there is a graphic showing family ties between networks and Obama.

Journalism is dead.

[Gaffer]

So it seems the keepers of the oath have sold that honor down the river for a pocketful of cash?

[hopespringseternal]

WebMD is mostly useless. Almost any symptom gets you the diagnosis that you need to go to the emergency room.

Obama bought everybody. That is where the money went.

[fortheDeclaration]

They are in the tank!

[tips up]

Just like the AMA. Watch how many drop their subscriptions to WebMD

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Crony capitalism at it’s best. At least we know how some of the $600M+ was spent.

[Youngman542012]

It has amazed me how many Doctors are behind Obamacare...because it will either put them out of business..or work them to death for very little pay...they must have believed the hype..that there would be more paying customers....what they are going to get now is more medicare patients that pay nothing...because the government will pay nothing...and it will be 4 months late too...

[G Larry]

ya, my Doc just alerted me to avoid WebMD for any serious information.

[dead]

In one article, it predicted doctors might pick up more patients and crowed in an article titled “7 Surprising Things About the Affordable Care Act” that many consumers already had received insurance refunds under the law.

It's all so freaking Soviet. There are no independent organizations. They all take the payola carrot or get the IRS stick.

[ladyjane]

Very few practicing physicians support Obamacare. They know how they are already being strangled by regulations. Reimbursement is at an all time low and they’re yanked around with rejected claims. Some physicians don’t even bother to bill Medicaid because it’s not worth the cost to do it.

I personally don’t know a single physician who supports Obamacare. They may be out there and keeping their views to themselves. I do know many who are cutting back and retiring because of it.

[Chickensoup]

WebMD owns the software companies use to keep track of their employees and their compliance with things like not smoking, going to the dr and etc, required flu vaccines and the like. It is a medical Nazi file cabinet.

It is complicit with both the Administration and the Corporate world and is another juncture of the encroaching Fascism encircling this electronic barbed wire prison our masters are erecting with the passive agreement of the masses.

[markomalley]

Reminds me of the propaganda from the FDR regime.

[JimRed]

Shows you don’t have to be a female of low degree to be a WHORE!

[B4Ranch]

I have switched to 90% alternative medicine and my health is much better for it. I even convinced my family MD to start using herbs instead of chemicals in his personal health care. He found it curious that I never came in with a ‘sickness’ and asked me why, so I told him that I used things like apple cider vinegar and baking soda the regulate my health.