You may not like ObamaCare, I know I sure don’t, but I hope you enjoy the commercials that try to brainwash you into liking it because you paid for them.
According to The Hill, Health and Human Services (HHS) officials have confirmed that the agency recently signed a new $8 million (with the option to spend more) contract with the marketing firm Weber Shandwick to promote insurance exchanges implemented as a part of Obamacare.
This isn’t the first time your tax dollars have been spent in order to tout the healthcare overhaul that most of us don’t want. The Administration entered a $3.1 million contract with Weber Shandwick last year and spent an additional $20 million selling its ideas with the help of another firm.
Proponents of the Federally-controlled insurance exchanges that will exist in 33 States by October say that the only way for Obamacare to work is for Americans to embrace it— an argument which, unsurprisingly, conservatives decrying both government spending and government-controlled healthcare believe is entirely moot.
There is a word for using public relations campaigns to make populations more accepting of laws pushed onto the people by governments: Propagandizing. And the Administration of Barack Obama has been prolific in its use of taxpayer-funded propaganda to push the President’s signature healthcare overhaul.
The Administration’s move to make Obamacare more appealing through old fashioned propaganda is a move to preempt a pending wave of ugly criticism from both sides of the aisle. Never before has Representative Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) 2010 remark that “we have to pass the bill so that you can, uh, find out what is in it” been more poignant. Americans are finding out a little bit more every day about what government healthcare means for the Nation and every day they like it a little less.
If you were the President, wouldn’t you feel the need to drop several million dollars on marketing to make the train wreck you orchestrated look a bit less fiery?
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