Obama folks going for old "piss on your leg and tell you it's rain" strategy https://t.co/6pOS0NzNEE
— Thankful Muppet Energy (Sunny) (@sunnyright) October 24, 2016
Welp, cat’s outta the bag, people. The Obama administration has officially admitted that Obamacare premiums are set to shoot up next year by double-digit percentages. And that can mean only one thing: It’s time for some serious damage control.
Vox didn’t do terribly well. Maybe Jesse Lee, the White House’s director of progressive media and online response, will fare better?
If you're not noting this context, you're actually only telling a very small part of the story: https://t.co/CmFssu3gdi
— Jesse Lee (NARA) (@jesseclee44) October 24, 2016
Here’s the “context” Lee’s talking about:
More than 70 percent of people can get a plan for less than $75/month after federal subsidies. https://t.co/8cMDHDMXOf
— NPR (@NPR) October 24, 2016
Oh, and there’s this:
Shopping: If each returning consumer picked lowest cost plan in same metal level as last yr, avg premiums paid would fall $28/month wrt 2016
— Jesse Lee (NARA) (@jesseclee44) October 24, 2016
There. You see? Don’t you feel better now?
Federally-subsidized news cheers federally-subsidized insurance. Yeah, I noted the context, @jesseclee44. @npr
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) October 24, 2016
Nice try, Mr. Raise People's Premiums 25 Percent. https://t.co/mH7D2XmLKM
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 24, 2016
Too bad those of us with no subsidies have seen rate increases of 2-3x. Ugh!
— John Lynn (@techguy) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/790664767220420608
You should totally ask for the "Context Discount"
@jesseclee44— aThirdOfDuane (@aThirdOfDuane) October 24, 2016
@NPR Context? Haha, no. Costs have gone up under #Obamacare and they'll go up again soon. https://t.co/t5SmYuvyPo
it's a mess— AstrO (@Mi_Astronauta) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/KC11A18A/status/790666217182810117
.@jesseclee44 tell that to people paying over $1000/mo for family coverage, you lying sack of crap. @NPR
— Mark C, austere BBQ scholar ?? (@UntraceableMC) October 24, 2016
Note to Mr. Lee:
If you have to try this hard to sell it, it isn't working. Costs are soaring, providers bailing, co-ops collapsing. Not good.
— AstrO (@Mi_Astronauta) October 24, 2016
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