Theodore's World: Obama Spent $700 Million Your Tax Dollars Promoting Obamacare

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April 03, 2014

Obama Spent $700 Million Your Tax Dollars Promoting Obamacare


Obama Spent $700 Million Your Tax Dollars Promoting Obamacare


Barack Obama contended that the government did not “make a hard sell” for Obamacare, despite his administration spending nearly $700 million to promote the law.

“We didn’t make a hard sell,” Obama said in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, praising the 7.1 million sign ups for the Affordable Care Act. “We didn’t have billions of dollars of commercials like some critics did.”

However, last July the Associated Press reported that Obamacare’s marketing campaign would cost at least $684 million.

Taxpayer funding went to all 50 states in efforts to encourage people to enroll, including nearly $28 million for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, for television, radio, print, and social media ads. [...]

Illinois recently paid the online satirical site the Onion up to $300,000 for online banner ads. One ad linking to the Cover Illinois website read: “Man without health insurance forced to sell action figures to pay for medical bills. Don’t sell your action figures.”


Wild Thing's comment............

Spending money...our tax dollars means nothing to Obama, he could care less.



Posted by Wild Thing at April 3, 2014 12:50 AM