The selling of Obamacare and other tripe....

I found this on HotAir.com this morning and after reading it I was reminded of discussion i had with a college friend on Time and Newsweek. He recalled the time he was with a person he knew at a medical center getting a treatment and he just had to kill a few hours. There were piles of recent issues of both Time and Newsweek and he said "After a while I found I was reading more of the Newsweek and less of the Time." After that I tried it at a library and he was right. Newsweek sucked less that Time (this was over twenty years ago.)

Now we have the propaganda rag of the left explaining the latest problem with Obamacare (excuse me, the Affordable Care Act...pardon me, while I puke.) The problem is not the piece of legislation, just the fact it hasn't been sold right

And Now, The Selling of Obamacare

Stephen Lam

In a windowless office in the basement of the West Wing, behind a utility room and next to a fire-alarm panel, David Simas is marking up another whiteboard with blue ink, hoping to explain one more time just how the President’s health care reform law will work when the time comes for uninusured Americans to sign up this fall.

The abstraction of Obamacare is about to become reality. But will anyone know what to do? An estimated 7 million Americans will join the first health exchanges from Oct. 1, 2013, to April 1, 2014, and most have no idea how to do that. And for the millions who are already covered by some early Obamacare benefits, Simas adds, “We need to continue to remind them of what they’re getting.”

If Simas, 42, has the nervous energy of the 2012 campaign, where he served as opinion-research director, there is a good reason. Though Barack Obama has competed in his last election, he has one more campaign ahead of him. This fall, Obamacare will go into full effect, with the promise of insuring as many as 40 million Americans if it succeeds. But it could still fail.

No Stephen, it's designed to fail. Without people just falling in line and paying multiple times what they do now, the system will collapse. And Stephen, in case you haven't figured it out, that is the purpose.

...the law is increasingly unpopular. According to an NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month, 49% of Americans now believe the law is a bad idea, the highest percentage recorded, with only 37% saying it is a good thing. Many states have already opted out of key provisions to expand Medicaid. In Washington, Republicans continue to lay siege to the law; they have voted to repeal it 37 times in the U.S. House.

That unpopularity threatens one of the law’s most ambitious goals—establishing health care exchanges allowing uninsured Americans to purchase affordable coverage. The exchanges need roughly 2.7 million healthy 18-t0-35-year-olds to sign up to be solvent. The majority of that group is nonwhite and male, according to Simas’ data, and a third are located in just three states: California, Texas and Florida. If too few choose to enroll because they don’t know about the law, don’t like it, or feel they don’t need insurance, the exchanges will fail. And so will the law.

The Administration has plotted an extensive social-media campaign designed to reach the young and healthy and is soliciting sports teams to help raise awareness. More than 10 staffers in the Office of Public Engagement are marshalling the help of Latino and African American groups and community nonprofits. And Simas has spent countless hours surrounded by maps of media markets and demographic data on the uninsured trying to remind prospective enrollees of the benefits available to them: “It’s that guy in Dallas, it’s the woman in Los Angeles, it’s the family in Miami-Dade,” he says.

Obama aides have been saying such things for years, with little effect. But now the clock is ticking, and Obama is running out of time to make his signature achievement stick.

Again Stephen, that is the purpose. Obama's signature achievement is yet to come and Obamacare is just one of the means to that end. Obama (and his ilk) hate this country as it was founded and they want it changed into a second rate nation, the United States of Europe if you will. He thinks we made it to the top of the international pyramid by cheating and taking the wealth of other nations. As if the people of the Middle East would know what the hell to do with oil without the work of the British and Americans. But B Hussein want to fundamentally transform this nation into a second rate power and moving to a single payer system for health care is a means to that end. Destroying the finest health care system on earth will leave the people of this country with no choice but having the government running it and if people are hurt or die during the implementation, so be it. The means justify the end in his mind and you should just go alone. B Hussein Obama will have his goal met of turing this country from a republic into a semi-solaist nation with no opposition. And the "leadership" of the Republican party have no stomach to fight him.

God help us all.