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Perverse Democrats (spending $500 million on PR for Obamacare)
American Spectator ^ | July 19, 2010 | The Prowler

Posted on 07/19/2010 5:34:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Donald Berwick -- the Obama Administration's recess-appointed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- and his staff aren't wasting a lot of time getting settled into their offices. Already, Berwick, according to career employees at CMS, has begun looking at what resources are at his disposal to launch a wide-scale media and public relations offensive in support of Obamacare and his views on government-funded health care. CMS is the agency charged with administering Medicare and working with state governments to administer Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The agency also has a role in setting and overseeing quality standards in nursing homes.

Berwick is also said to have asked his senior staff to look for ways to utilize some of the foundations and entities he has had relationships with while working at Harvard and his own think tank, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and those organizations read like a who's who from the George Soros Dustbin of Leftist Agitators.

Tops of among them is the Open Society Institute (OSI), itself a Soros-funded organization

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According to CMS sources, Berwick's team has been talking to those four agencies, as well as one other global communications firm with strong ties to the Obama Administration -- believed to be the Brunswick Group -- about PR projects they could undertake under new contracts put in place after the 2011 expiration of the current multi-hundred million budget. "We're going to need strong PR as more and more of the health care reform plan comes on line and citizens have more questions about the role CMS may play in their lives," says a CMS career staffer. "I wouldn't be surprised if we're looking at PR budgets upwards of $500 million, if not more."

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhofascism; democratcorruption; democrats; fail; liberalfascism; obama; obamacare; socialisthealthcare; socializedmedicine; tyranny
Isn't it illegal for the government to spend money on politicking?

Meanwhile, if Medicare providers enclose information about Obamacare in their correspondence with seniors, they are threatened by the government.

1 posted on 07/19/2010 5:34:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Mexicans are good about this. Spend 30 million dollars to built a road, and then 40 million dollars to put up signs every mile saying it was paid for by the governement they had recently elected.


2 posted on 07/19/2010 5:38:41 AM PDT by rovenstinez (,)
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To: reaganaut1

Hundreds of thousands out of work, many don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and the government wants to spend half a billion dollars on a propaganda program in support of legislation that’s alread been signed into law? This is completely through the looking glass.


3 posted on 07/19/2010 5:39:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

I remember learing about propaganda when we were studying communism and socialism in school.


4 posted on 07/19/2010 5:45:18 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: reaganaut1

It’s also illegal for the government to steal the taxpayer money; put it into private slush funds where they use it for their own purposes.

They should be in jail for a long, long time.


5 posted on 07/19/2010 5:45:34 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: reaganaut1

Nothing is illegal when you own the sheriff.


6 posted on 07/19/2010 5:46:07 AM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: circlecity
Hundreds of thousands out of work, many don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and the government wants to spend half a billion dollars on a propaganda

That's the first thing that came to my mind. The most corrupt organization in America today is the federal government.
Eat weeds. This isn't about the American people. It's all about power and privilege for the few in Washington.
(Now get off the computer and get back to work, you slacker. Oboma needs more money.)

7 posted on 07/19/2010 5:48:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: circlecity
. . . the government wants to spend half a billion dollars on a propaganda program in support of legislation that’s alread been signed into law? This is completely through the looking glass.

This isn't about supporting the legislation. This is about desparately spinning the facts that have come out about 0-care in an effort to save their seats.

It might be packaged as "educating the public", but in reality it is funding the re-election campaigns of democrat incumbents.

8 posted on 07/19/2010 5:49:39 AM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: reaganaut1

Congress has the power to cut off their funding. Let’s see if conservatives fight back.


9 posted on 07/19/2010 5:53:19 AM PDT by orinoco
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To: reaganaut1

"None of this is for us or our families or any Moslem. SUCKERS."

10 posted on 07/19/2010 5:53:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: orinoco

We’re screwed.

This is just a stall tactic to settle down the public. Once this kicks in for the duration, it will break the private insurance industry and we will quickly have their coveted “Single Payer” system. Even they have admitted that this is their main plan and goal.

But they have to get past the critical incubation period which ends this November. Once the Democrats get reelected, they will start anchoring the foundation of this plan and it will become as permanent as Social Security. (Sad but true.) We absolutely MUST win this November.

There is no other way to stop it, outside of a total revolution. And most of us know the reality of what has become of American patriotism, valor and principled integrity. It’s just not there anymore in the makeup of the average American.


11 posted on 07/19/2010 6:06:33 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
We’re screwed.

Not if the impoverished public finds out they're spending 500 mill on Oboma commercials.

12 posted on 07/19/2010 6:42:09 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

BTW, the UK is opening up it’s health care industry to the private sector. Government run health care didn’t work.


13 posted on 07/19/2010 6:43:55 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: reaganaut1

The “Problem “ with the DeathCare Plan..ain’t on of the right PR...its an evident shortage of tall trees and short rope in DC...


14 posted on 07/19/2010 6:50:08 AM PDT by mo
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To: reaganaut1

How many poor, down-trodden people could have been insured with this $500 million? What a waste of taxpayer’s money. This story should be front and center.


15 posted on 07/19/2010 6:55:34 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: reaganaut1

It sure looks to me like money laundering. Doesn’t Soros contribute heavily to Demcampaigns? Why not use taxpayer money instead?


16 posted on 07/19/2010 7:14:31 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: reaganaut1

I am against the whole healthcare bill but just from a practical point how many uninsured could have been covered for that $500,000 of wasteful propaganda?


17 posted on 07/19/2010 7:17:26 AM PDT by CajunConservative (0bama, your ass is the first one you need to kick.)
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19 posted on 07/19/2010 8:18:51 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: reaganaut1
At $500,000 a pop, that $500,000,000 would have been better spent "creating or saving" approx'ly 1,000 jobs...go figure. /s =.=
20 posted on 07/19/2010 8:51:17 AM PDT by cranked
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