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NYT: Administration spends $17 million a month advertising Obamacare
Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:47 pm
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The New York Times reports that between January and March of this year, the Obama Administration is and will spend $17 million a month advertising for ObamaCare. From January until the end of March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the HealthCare.gov site and administers the Affordable Care Act, will have spent $52 million on paid media, officials said. Conservative opponents of the law have concentrated their spending on ads focusing on Democratic candidates and sowing doubts about the viability of the law. The Times also opens the piece with a paragraph that seems to mock the president for his misguided priorities: Russian troops were rolling through Crimea when Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff and a foreign policy expert, was deployed on a mission to do media outreach. But the focus of Mr. McDonough’s calls to local talk radio stations was not geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, it was health care. Mr. McDonough chatted with Andy Baskin and Jeff Phelps, hosts of a popular sports talk radio program on WKRK-FM (92.3) in Cleveland, about the coming N.F.L. draft, basketball at the White House and his days playing college football in Minnesota. Mr. McDonough then pitched a new website featuring games, videos and superstar athletes explaining the benefits of health insurance: a sports-themed portal to HealthCare.gov. “We’ve all seen it happen,” said Mr. McDonough, promoting the portal, GamePlan4Me, to the hosts of “Baskin & Phelps” and their mostly young, mostly male audience. “Somebody’s playing hoops, and they blow out a knee or something. And then all of a sudden, if you don’t have health care, you’re going to bankrupt yourself.”
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Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:48 pm to pistolpete23
Thought that's what the media was for?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:51 pm to pistolpete23
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Somebody’s playing hoops
Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:53 pm to pistolpete23
So let me get this straight:
They are spending a shite ton of tax payer money, to advertise something to encourage people to sign up for something that will spend an even larger amount of tax payer money.
Super.
They are spending a shite ton of tax payer money, to advertise something to encourage people to sign up for something that will spend an even larger amount of tax payer money.
Super.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 3:58 pm to Fun Bunch
Don't forget that the true number of newly insured people who have actually paid for their insurance is somewhere in the 580k range
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:02 pm to Lsut81
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Don't forget that the true number of newly insured people who have actually paid for their insurance is somewhere in the 580k range
Sooooooo it's not working then?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:11 pm to idlewatcher
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Sooooooo it's not working then?
You say its not working... Morons say its an overwhelming success.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:22 pm to pistolpete23
read the NYT article and prepare the ani of household goods you're likely to destroy. wtf is wrong with this country?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:25 pm to pistolpete23
We still have another three years to endure with this frickupery that is this administration. How many more scandals will get written into the history books of upright authors. Late last night I was made aware of the fact that Ms. Attkison has a website that is up and running making some enemies for her.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:29 pm to pistolpete23
So...........
It doesn't sell itself?
It doesn't sell itself?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:12 pm to Scoop
less than what Bush spent on the war in Iraq.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:15 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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less than what Bush spent on the war in Iraq.
there it is
silliness
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:20 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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less than what Bush spent on the war in Iraq.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:36 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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less than what Bush spent on the war in Iraq.
How much has Obama spent in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:38 pm to pistolpete23
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:02 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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less than what Bush spent on the war in Iraq.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:21 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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less than what Congress spent on the war in Iraq.
FIFY!
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:37 pm to dr smartass phd
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I guess this makes sense now
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Yeah, any bill that is passed is no perfect. I wanted single-payer, I wanted a public option.
she lacks the warmth and depth to be called a count...liberal bitch has the mentality of a cinder block
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