Writing at NationalReview.com, Reince Priebus lays out the bad news about a $14 million contract to a public relations firm whose job will be to tout ObamaCare.
Who’s paying for this? Taxpayers, of course. It was bad enough that President Obama raised taxes to fund a new entitlement. Now the American people are footing the bill for our government to convince us that Obamacare — and its 20,000 pages of regulations — wasn’t a mistake.
It’s going to be a tough sell. Even some Democrats are realizing that navigating this bureaucratic monstrosity will be nearly impossible for patients and small businesses, with or without a PR blitz.
Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who voted for Obamacare, told Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently that the implementation of the law is a looming disaster. “I just see a huge train wreck coming down,” he told her.
You can read more about ObamaCare – specifically the state decisions on whether or not to expand Medicaid – here, in a new research newsletter written by JLF health policy analyst Katherine Restrepo.
