[Liz]

COVERED CALIFORNIA EXCHANGE A MAJOR OBAMACARE DEBACLE Two years ago, The New York Times reported that Covered California, the Golden State's Obamacare exchange, "poured significant state resources into a detailed marketing plan -- developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange."

Ogilvy's plan was to tap major network TV shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Modern Family" to sell Americans on the health care law.

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Townhall.com ^ | April 4, 2014 | Brent Bozell / /FR Posted by Kaslin

Obama aide Valerie Jarrett told a celebrity gossip website POPSUGAR why she had come to Hollywood. "I'm meeting with writers of various TV shows and movies to try to get it into the scripts." The "it" is Obamacare.

Conservatives are no match for liberals in this arena. The White House people know the immense cultural power the left has in popular culture. Liberals rightly credit TV and movies and pop songs for America's growing support for gay "marriage." So why not use that power for Obamacare?

Jarrett told POPSUGAR that they've used all kinds of famous people to push Obamacare: "We're talking to celebrities. We're talking to athletes, because obviously they get injured a lot and many of them are the same age as the market we're going after. And what (athletes) can say is, 'Look, you never know when life is going to throw you a curve ball. You're walking down the street, you're a little clumsy, you trip, you fall -- where do you end up? Emergency room. A couple grand just to walk in the door ... Who can afford that?'"

But there's something undignified and even insulting in the way Team Obama has taken the largest transfer of power from the individual to the state and is trying to accomplish it in the cheesiest venues, like sitcoms and fake-interview comedy shows. It speaks to a dumbed-down popular culture. Sadder still is watching the president feeding it.

So far, the Obama-loving networks seemed to have drawn a line (nets refused prime time for O/Care's faked "victory lap") and has avoided clunky plot contrivances in its top programs to push a blatantly Obama-boosting agenda. But Obamacare is still wildly unpopular, and the White House clearly thinks most people aren't serious enough to be persuaded by watching CNN or MSNBC.

It would rather have your favorite fictional TV characters grab your lapels and tell you to get on the Obamacare bandwagon. It won't admit that Obamacare's promise is as fictional as those programs.

[piytar]

It is worse than that, libscum and other assorted leeches. A lot of doctors are simply quitting. You won't be able to get health care period. Hint, morons: “affordable” insurance is NOT health care.

BTW, several doctors I know are moving out of the country because they don't want to be conscripted to provide health care aka be slaves.

FU Low information voters and other leftscum. You deserve to die horribly from lack of health care because of what you have wrought. A lot of good people are also going to die, too.

[dforest]

I believe all these azzholes were told that this was going to happen. According to the Obamacare creeps, you do not need doctors because doctors cost money.

Here folks, they are supplying everyone with SEIU fakes.

Ain’t Democrat Obama health delivery great?

Ain’t no end to the stupidity in this country. All these low info dopes thought doctors and hospitals were going to give them quality health care with hardly any payment.

Enjoy it lefties, you own this crap.

[Hugin]

Mrs. Hugin has an employee with cancer who is in the middle of treatment and she found out the center she was getting care from wouldn’t take her new Obamacare insurance. The only place she could go was twice as far away, in a bad part of the city. She called the old place and eventurally got ahold of the CEO, and he finally agreed to let her finish her treatment there. I doubt most people had such a happy ending.

But according to Harry Reid I’m making this up. Can I get a check from the Koch brothers now?

[piytar]

When people start seeing their kids die because of obamacare, the gloves WILL come off. And it WILL happen.

BTW, administration media whores (if any of you lurk here), YOU will be in the crosshairs.

PS I have no kids, so I am not speaking about myself.

[falcon99]

Californians deserve every negative result of Obamacare, whether it be lack of care, lack of doctors or higher costs. They wanted this crap socialism, now let them reap the “benefits” of their stupidity.

[piytar]

Yeah, Juan. Make America a free fire zone for criminals, thugcops, and the government.

BTW, ya moron, you do realize that you will be one of the first ones put up against the wall and shot if you get your way? Nah, probably not. You are clearly too ignorant of history to have noticed that ever-recurring pattern.

I’d say FUJW, but your “buddies” on the left will do it for me, probably with a 9mm to the back of the skull. Ya MORON.

[Alberta's Child]

One Californian woman told KPIX-CA, “This is not what we were promised.”

Cry me a river.

B!tch.

[darkwing104]

Note to utopian socialist fools

Its called reality

Deal with it

[CodeToad]

It is only going to get worse.

[GBA]

Next will come the laws that enslave doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers, mandating their time and services and putting caps on their pay.

What else can marxists do when reality gets in their way?

[William Tell]

Hey! ... Socialism causes artificial shortages? Who knew?

Only a lib could watch pictures of Soviet citizens waiting in line for non-existent bread and think that the problem is too little government involvement.

[kaehurowing]

This can be easily fixed. Just tell doctors that they either will provide services under Obamacare or will be taxed the amount of their income. Problem solved. [/sarc]

[JPG]

The newly hired Obamacare doctor will see you now.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Don’t blame Obama. He inherited this problem... from Obama.

[RetiredTexasVet]

When you are thicker than a fence post a complicated concept of “unintended consequences” is way beyond your comprehension.

[yldstrk]

that’s what you idiots voted for

[dagogo redux]

In the future, history teachers will tell their students, “They used to call them ‘doctors’.”