Posted on 11/28/2013 8:07:09 AM PST by Kenny
The White House and congressional leadership are urging Democratic lawmakers to highlight ObamaCare success stories in an effort to take the offensive on the healthcare rollout after two months of backpedaling, according to two memos obtained by The Hill.
The memos, one from the Democrats’ messaging arm and one from the White House, advise members on how to establish the narrative that the Affordable Care Act is already working..
“There are actions Democrats can take to address the Republican attacks and go on offense,” reads the memo from the Democratic Policy and Communications Center (DPCC).
The memo outlines a compilation of “messaging ideas to highlight the benefits of the ACA and generate positive press and social media coverage.”
The Democratic Caucus is being told that the most effective strategy is to highlight the stories of consumers who obtained coverage despite having pre-existing conditions, of those who no longer have to worry about the financial threat of lifetime caps, and of young adults who have been able to stay on their parent’s coverage.
“Their stories will provide us with the ammunition we need to rebut Republican claims that the law isn’t working,” the DPCC says.
The White House’s messaging memo is similarly focused on these positive personal stories.
The administration’s guidance includes a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that says more than 7 million seniors have saved $8.3 billion on prescription medication since the Medicare “doughnut hole” was closed in 2010, and an estimated $4 billion in savings for consumers because of new insurance industry transparency and accountability laws.
The White House also expressed confidence in the memo that it would meet its self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to have the website running smoothly for most users, saying HealthCare.Gov would be able to handle the 50,000 simultaneous users it was originally intended to serve.
Still, Democrats’ frustration with the administration over the bungled rollout pokes through the optimistic messaging campaign.
“The problems with the HealthCare.Gov website are not acceptable, and we should continue to aggressively press the president to fix them,” the DPCC memo states.
The Democrats’ messaging scheme comes after nearly two months of getting pummeled over the glitchy rollout.
President Obama and other top officials involved in the launch apologized and expressed frustration from the start, but the daily barrage from Republicans, and the ensuing media frenzy, has frustrated the White House, which believes the positive aspects of the law are going unreporte..
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was sick of the incessant apologizing, and pledged to change tactics after fuming that he “had too much humble pie.”.
Their lies are not working, so the solution is to tell bigger lies.
Obama is telling the rats to get back on his sinking ship.
I wonder how that’s going to work out.
The WSJ even included the Democrat talking points article in their news section of the paper. It sounded more like excuses than anything else.
The reaction in the comment section made it pretty clear that if anyone tries herding the sheep at Republican dinner tables, they will probably go home hungry.
Obama instructions:
Tell your voters the successes so that they feel they are the only people having problems with law. Make them feel as if their problems are isolated and the law is really working and they just don’t know it yet.
In 2014 we are going to watch the biggest propaganda effort in the history of mankind...convience an entitre population they are not living through what they know is bad
Yep. The innumerable phony ‘success’ stories will be front and center in the media.
"Congratulations. Thanks to the Democratic efforts, your substandard medical coverage has now been replaced* with one includes birth control and condoms."
*Additional fees may apply.
Dumb communists think Soviet style propaganda will save their bacon
LOL
The Dims double down on stupidity and hubris.
In life when a person finds that he has dug himself into a hole, they normally stop digging. In the case of the democrats, they just hired more diggers. When a program like Obamacare fails to achieve a single one of its stated objectives, a rational approach would not be full steam ahead. That is unless the real objective isn’t the publicly stated objective.
If Obamacare continues to be a train wreck we know it is, the dems will have committed political suicide Jim Jones style.
Uh-Oh! The dhimmicraps are fighting back. Countdown has started to the GOPe surrender.
It’ a long way until next November. Never underestimate the government/media complex.
Desperate and pathetic.
"Yeah, that roll-out really sucked. We're with ya'".
We need to remind folks that it's not just the website that sucks, it's the whole law.
Spread the word far and wide.
Put a simple bumper sticker on your car.
Post it every where you post on the Internet.
"REPEAL"
We have to wonder how many democrats who are facing election challenges will go along with this strategy.
Lighting a match after you pooped only makes the air smell like burnt poop. So, yes, Democrats, please go on the offensive with this turd. There will still be 80M+ getting screwed by it and no matter how you try to cover the smell, it’s going to stink.
They will be fighting over feel good examples.
Tell all those still employed that they have Democrats to thank for reduced hours and pay cuts.
The important thing is that Obama cronies get hundreds of millions to produce health related things that don't work.
Great Caesar's Ghost! We could enumerate the entire litany.
My best friend, age 56, with stage 4 colon cancer just got his insurance cancelled!
Its a good thing too, he was not covered for maternity care and birth control.
SPIN THAT.
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