White House ramps up effort to sell Obamacare

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: July 9 E-mail the writer

The White House is dramatically expanding its efforts to sell the Affordable Care Act, hiring additional staffers, formulating a public-relations strategy and reaching out to key lawmakers as the new health-insurance system prepares to launch in coming months.
The administration’s push comes as Republican leaders signal their intent to focus on the law’s implementation, and any problems it encounters, in their quest to retake the Senate and maintain their House advantage in 2014.

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See how the states have sided on some of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

GOP lawmakers announced Tuesday that they will hold hearings on the administration’s decision to delay the law’s requirement that large employers provide health-care coverage for workers. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) also vowed to hold a House vote this month to delay key elements of the law, commonly known as Obamacare.

Well, clearly the sequester does not apply to the white House adding staff to sell Obama Care. The administration thinks that this is a selling job. No, as someone who has been administering medical plans for 30 years, I can tell you that this bill is hopelessly flawed and needs major revisions. If, and I repeat if, the Republicans had any brains, they could probably enlist the support of nervous Democrats and seize on this opportunity to make major revisions to the law. My fear is that this is all going to be about politics and not the reality of what the cost of medical care is doing to this country.