Saturday, December 07, 2013

With the Affordable Care website up and running the pro-Obamacare forces go on the offense.

Courtesy of Bloomberg:  

Next week, a number of celebrities will join in an effort organized by an independent group to boost enrollment on the online exchanges, said a person familiar with the plan, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it. An advertising blitz will begin in January after the holiday season has ended, said the person. 

Scarlett Johansson, Aisha Tyler, and Gabrielle Union have recorded phone messages that Planned Parenthood is using to promote enrollment. Actresses Lena Dunham of “Girls” and Elizabeth Banks of “Hunger Games” posted Twitter messages to promote a Planned Parenthood Internet town hall this week on Obamacare. 

In addition, Planned Parenthood, which provides health services to women, will “ramp up significantly” its efforts to promote enrollment in January, deploying hundreds of staff members with a goal of contacting a half-million people in Texas, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, said Rachel Fleischer, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 

Enroll America, an advocacy group with close ties to the White House, plans more than a thousand events across the country to promote coverage during the first three weeks of December, a 40 percent increase from the same period in November, said Justin Nisly, a spokesman. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats, sent statements to the hometown news media of 60 Republican lawmakers who have previously voted to repeal Obamacare, criticizing them for benefits that would be eliminated.

The Republicans response to this, now that the website no longer affords offers them an example to use for their attack, is to cherry pick news of people having to pay higher premiums for coverage that is now more comprehensive than their old coverage, or which reflects the fact that the governors of their state did not work with the administration to expand Medicaid or put state sponsored health care exchanges in place.

That sort of makes the tactic of sending statements to the local press in those states reminding them that their conservative politicians may be responsible for why the program is not working in their community, and that they also voted to strip their constituents of the benefits that ARE working, kind of brilliant.

And let me just say, as a red blooded male, that NOTHING the Republicans can come up with is going to stand a chance against a message on my phone from Scarlett Johansson telling me that enrolling IS a good idea.

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:41 PM

    They should have been doing this from 2011! This is what pisses me off! How many people know that women used to ge charged more for healthcare than men and that now that's against the law????

    GRRRR!!!

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  2. Anonymous2:53 PM

    Republicans are going to eat shit and die over this issue. Again, President Obama and crew are, and will, continue outplaying them one step at a time!

    All the Republicans have done, and continue doing, is obstruct and not represent the folks that have put them in office.

    Vote them OUT - U.S. Congressmen and women and Republican governors across the nation!

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  3. Cracklin Charlie2:58 PM

    Three twenty-somethings signed up at my house today. My son's, and my daughter's boyfriend's premiums will be $14.95 per month. My daughter's premium will be $18.95 per month.

    Prior to Obamacare, Humana was ripping my daughter off, to the tune of $423 dollars per month. Greedy Bastards! Listen to Scarlett, and enroll, Gryphen!

    Thanks, Obama!

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    1. Anonymous3:44 PM

      I just signed up yesterday on the Federal Exchange and mine is paid for, $421 per month with $35 co-pay per visit and only $4200 deductible. Zero out of pocket for me. I waited a few months to even try because the website was not functioning correctly but wow, it was worth the wait.

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  4. Beldar J Conehead5:13 PM

    Maybe Scarlett Johansson is calling you about insurance, Gryphen, but in the field behind our town's Federal Death Panel offices, the dead bodies are stacking up like cord wood just as The Screechy Wretch(tm) predicted!

    If only you and the small handful of librul deadenders still visiting this defunct blag hadn't so viciously attacked our beautiful - albeit rapidly aging - Queen Esther, Good Ol' Gramps McCain would have been elected in 2008 (and died shortly after inauguration day when the brake line on Air Force One was mysteriously cut) and Screechy would have ascended to the throne and quickly turned Amercia into the racist, misogynist Christian theocracy the Foundling Fathers intended it to be!

    And Jeebus, also, too.

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  5. Anonymous5:55 PM

    3 Ways You Can Tell the Health Care Website Is Working

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/3-ways-you-can-tell-the-health-care-website-is-working-20131205

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  6. Anonymous5:57 PM

    Those Media Hysterics Who Said Obama's Presidency Was Dead Were Wrong. Again.

    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115849/obamas-media-doomsayers-refuted-job-numbers-and-website-repair

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  7. Anonymous7:22 PM

    Another Obamacare Success: More People Sign Up In 2 Days Than Signed Up In October

    http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/07/obamacare-success-people-signed-2-days-signed-october.html

    ...."It turns out the law that the media claimed would destroy Obama is taking down the Republican Party."

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  8. Anonymous9:58 AM

    REPEAL OBAMACARE
    IMPEACH BARRY SOETORO aka Barack Hussein Obama

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    1. hedgewytch10:26 AM

      LMAO - yeah I see these crazy entries on posts made by friends of friends - usually from states like Texas, Ga, and OK. And every time I reply, "for what?" There is NEVER have an answer. It's just sputtering and stupidity - So sorry that you just can't impeach someone for being black while holding power. And btw, President Barak Obama is going down in history as one of the most amazing and influential Presidents this country has ever seen.

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