Posted on 01/27/2017 12:55:10 PM PST by deplorableindc
The Trump administration says it is pulling back advertising to promote HealthCare.gov as open enrollment draws to a close for this year.
The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday that the government has withdrawn about $5 million in ads as part of an effort to cut costs. The statement said HHS has already spent more than $60 million to promote sign-ups this year under former President Barack Obama's health care law.
Former Obama officials immediately accused the new administration of "sabotage."
Calling the decision "outrageous," former HealthCare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan said in a statement that the move could keep young, healthy people from getting into the insurance pool, thereby driving up costs. "We know that more young people enroll during the final days of open enrollment, but they need to be reminded of the Jan. 31 deadline," Counihan said.
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>>Former Obama officials immediately accused the new administration of “sabotage.”<<
Sabotage is clandestine. This is out there in your face we are shutting this damn thing down.
Without regards to the obvious, if snowflakes don’t know about zerocare by now, advertising is simply payola.
I’d like to see much more ceasing of gubmint advertising.
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ITEM----How $4.3 billion tax dollars to then-Sen Mary Landrieu (Dem-LA) was attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Harry Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare.
BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. Reid needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage.
In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied--- Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare---but $4.3 went to Landrieu not the $200,000 she had bargained for.
<><> Was Mary the baglady for buying the Democratic straight party-line votes? <><>
THE LANDRIEU PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Landrieu sold her aye vote for a "price." Landrieu was bought off in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu.
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount.
MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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ITEM----Obamacare was developed as a a vehicle for consolidating Dummycrat power.....w/ a multi-billion dollar slush fund. The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest.
Egged on by Pelosi, no one in Congress told Americans about Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).
In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion and in 2015 and on, $2 billion........
....the reasons for all those O/Care delays, fixits, exemptions, waivers, extensions, etc, are becoming crystal clear.
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CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN--- REQUEST DETAILED TAX OUTLAYS TO SUPPORT THE OCARE PR PROGRAM All tax allocations are explicitly detailed in the Congressional Record as to their use and limitations, etc.
CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Didn’t Obama have ads promoting services for illegals?
Those better get pulled, too.
Didn’t Obama have ads promoting services for illegals?
Those better get pulled, too.
I was wondering why these were still out there. One of these stupid ads popped on a YouTube video I was watching the other day.
Totally misleading headline...
Trump has NOT pulled back on the ads....
He has pulled the ads themselves....
The way this is worded is that he changed his mind and “pulled back”....
...I don't want to hear it.
There's a new kid in town.
... I don't want to hear it.
Maybe HealthCare.gov CEO Counihan should have Jonathan Gruber take a day off from teaching at Yale to make a couple speeeches.
Gruber could reminisce about the Obama types depending on taxpayers’ “stupidity” to get the thing passed.
“Stupidity” has to be the organizing issue Counihan is depending on now......to get new enrollees as the thing is collapsing before our very eyes.
They are required by law to buy health care.(For now, anyway.) No need to advertise that.
What a weeks it’s been. Not EVEN one week and DJT already has done more for the country than the past 4 Presidents have done in 28 years combined. I said for years, the last real Republican POTUS we had left office in 1989, and now finally we got one back and WOW, this guy is unbelievable, he doesn’t sleep does he.
More winning.
I’m not going to get tired of this.
5.56mm
America needed a businessman in charge. $5 million here, $500 million there. It all adds up. Cut the waste.
The ads were just a taxpayer subsidy to the
CROOKED LYING MEDIA
Kill the Ad Council too. We don’t need preaching from federal agencies and NGOs who pay the AC nannies with tax dollars to warn us, for ex., that `teen bullying is bad’.
HHS is chock full of liberals, even more so than many of the other federal agencies. Their heads must be exploding. Haha
They’re still all over the tv here saying......hurry before January 31 and avoid the penalty.
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