Let me provide a simple translation of the title of this post. It means President Obama is going back to full campaign mode. It is a mode he rarely leaves, but was forced out of when it became apparent that the ObamaCare website was a complete disaster. Let's see, I believe that was on October 1, during the celebrated roll out of ObamaCare and its heralded website. It didn't take long for most Americans to realize just how large the failure was going to loom over the President's signature legislation. But as I pointed out in a previous post, ObamaCare is more than just a website.
We are now seeing conflicting claims about the website. President Obama and company are quick to point out it isn't perfect, but is running a lot better. They are so encouraged that they are kicking off a campaign to sell the benefits of the law to the American people.
Politico - President Barack Obama will launch a coordinated campaign Tuesday by the White House, congressional Democrats and their outside allies to return attention to why the Affordable Care Act passed in the first place.After two months of intense coverage of the botched HealthCare.gov rollout, the president will host a White House event kicking off a three-week drive to refocus the public on the law’s benefits, senior administration officials told POLITICO.
The White House will take the lead in emphasizing a different benefit each day until the Dec. 23 enrollment deadline for Jan. 1 coverage. The daily message will be amplified through press events and social media by Democratic members of Congress, the Democratic National Committee, congressional campaign committees and advocacy organizations, officials said.
The fresh push is an attempt to get back to the game plan that Democrats wanted to pursue before the faulty website forced them into full-time damage control. The president needs to rebuild confidence in the law among the public and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill, who have threatened to roll back aspects of Obamacare if the insurance marketplace didn’t improve quickly — and refocus attention on what would be lost if it were repealed.
Now that the website appears to be mostly functional, the West Wing thinks it has the ability to return to sales mode.
Let's look at the facts. President Obama is kicking off a concerted attempt to feed more lies to the American people. Faced with the multiple failures of ObamaCare, he is about to start, again, lying to the American people. He is going to tell them how great ObamaCare really is, as if we are children who have to be told to eat our vegetables. In light of that, I would like to know something.How is he going to get past the facts? The health insurance plans being sold on the ObamaCare website are turning out to be mostly more expensive and providing less coverage than the plans previously held by the millions of Americans who have received cancellation notices. I've lost count of how many people we have heard who are having to purchase insurance plans that have about $6,000 in out-of-pocket expenses before the benefits even start to kick in.
The facts of ObamaCare simply do not add up to the rhetoric we have heard. This upcoming sales pitch on which the President is about to embark will be no better. The best description I can think of is a snake oil salesman. Remember the old western television shows? Many of them featured a traveling salesman at one point. He was usually selling one concoction or another that he professed would cure all the ails of the good townsfolk. The one thing that could be depended on is the salesman was lying through his teeth to sell a product that was nothing like he was portraying.
Get ready people. The traveling salesman known as the ObamaCare Snake Oil Salesman is about to hit the road. We are in for another round of lies and rhetoric as President Obama tries to convince us the medicine he is selling is actually good for us. I don't know about you, but I'm just not buying what he is selling.
