Dude who got $12M from UnitedHealth before getting an ethics waiver to oversee The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act getting salty. https://t.co/As86nw1oo3
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) January 13, 2017
As Republicans move forward with a “repeal and replace” of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama is blaming a lack of effective branding for why the health care law isn’t as popular Dems said it would be:
.@POTUS: Failures due to lost PR battles. pic.twitter.com/gnN4NE9FHs
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 13, 2017
According to the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), people he’s talked to indicate that “branding” was the problem — that and a lack of snarky attitude, apparently:
A hospital CEO told me that if we called it ACA, instead of OCare, people would like it.
Next time– less helping people, more branding.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) January 13, 2017
It’s unlikely that better “branding” would have convinced people whose premiums skyrocketed or lost their policies and/or doctors after having been promised they could keep them to have a higher approval of the law.
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/819922266725158913
People reject the totalitarian substance of #Obamacare. You can rename it anything & people will still reject it. Arrogant toad. https://t.co/qHIJjCweIQ
— David Morgan (@StarCoreOne02) January 13, 2017
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If more people are hurt than helped, is it a good thing?
Next time– More truth, less bullshit https://t.co/gq2dsyzqyQ
— Boliver Shagnasty (@stoicpatriot) January 13, 2017
Lol right. Folks just hate for no reason https://t.co/NtzKrHPoSw
— Tweet (@sror12831718) January 13, 2017
"Five years from now … going to be a whole bunch of people who don’t call it Obamacare because they don’t want me to get the credit" https://t.co/xtvcahr7iG
— Archmage Melvyl (@melvyl) January 13, 2017
Translation: "If we had lied more, you would like our failed policies better" https://t.co/lDV8iHgtX0
— Mutiny Arms Retail (@MutinyArmsRet) January 13, 2017
I love people who think 'branding' is where Obama failed.
Branding is the only thing Obama was good at.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 13, 2017
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