This Is What The ObamaCrapCare Advertising Bucks Are Buying!

Prize-Winning Obamacare Promo Encourages Crazy Kids To ‘Forget About The Price Tag’

December 5, 2013 by Ben Bullard

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a $2,000 prize to the winner of a do-it-yourself advertising contest aimed at promoting Obamacare enrollment among young people. The video that took the pot has at least one thing going for it: truth in advertising.

“Don’t worry ’bout the price tag,” sings Erin McDonald, whose submission won the prize by shoehorning an Obamacare message into an arrangement of British pop star Jessie J’s 2011 single “Price Tag.”

The contest stems from a collaboration between HHS and Young Invincibles, a nonprofit that seeks to channel the political will of millenials.

“Back in August 2013, Young Invincibles, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services, launched the Healthy Young America Video Contest, an effort to mobilize young people to help educate and inform one another about the Affordable Care Act,” the official White House blog explains.

Here’s McDonald’s prize-winning hook, transcribed with admirable phonetic accuracy by The Daily Caller:

Ain’t about the, uh, cha-ching cha-ching. Ain’t about the, yeah, bla-bling bla-bling. Affordable Care Act. Don’t worry ’bout the price tag.

What will the Obama Administration resort to next in its surreal effort to mainstream his onerous health care mandate — staging Obamacare-themed happy hours at bars? Oh, wait — they’re already doing that.

Young Voters Abandoning Obama

Obama Losing The Hope And Change Generation

November 19, 2013 by Ben Bullard 

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The same Quinnipiac poll that shows President Barack Obama in a free fall with voters also reveals that the President who successfully sold young voters a nebulous promise of hope and change is beginning to lose his appeal with the hope and change generation.

Quinnipiac finds that only 40 percent of young people approve of the President’s performance — virtually identical to the general voting population’s 39 percent approval rating. Among 19- to 29-year-olds, 54 percent disapprove of Obama; among 30- to 49-year-olds, the figure is 51 percent. That’s right up there with the general voting population’s 54 percent disapproval rating.

A similar question about Obama’s trustworthiness produced a similar breakdown in numbers. By contrast, when young voters were asked whether they trusted Obama over Congressional Republicans on issues ranging from the economy to immigration to healthcare reform, 18- to 29-year-olds favored the GOP in every category:

• Healthcare: 41 percent (Obama); 46 percent (GOP)
• The economy: 39 percent (Obama); 49 percent (GOP)
• Immigration: 41 percent (Obama); 42 percent (GOP)
• Federal budget: 41 percent (Obama); 44 percent (GOP)

Of course, what young people think about Obama means little for Obama himself as he rides out the remainder of his Presidency. As his credibility has taken repeated hits over the course of 2013 (and especially since the Obamacare rollout fiasco), political writers and talking heads have begun throwing in “lame duck” references with increasing frequency.

But the extent to which young voters apply the guilt-by-association theory to Obama’s fellow Democrats — many of whom are distancing themselves from their key role in making Obamacare the law of the land — could help determine whether there’s a partisan realignment in Congress in next year’s midterm elections.

In a midterm election cycle that lacks a national stage for a candidate to make an overt push for young voters, it’s likely that young voter turnout for most of the 2014 Congressional races won’t approach the level seen in the past two general elections. Young voters staying at home on Election Day, according to the conventional thinking, is supposed to benefit the GOP. But next year, it could be Democratic incumbents who hope for a light turnout among the young.

Young Americans Not Flocking To ObamaCrapCare. Why Should They. If They Get Sick Then They Can Buy It, In The Meantime They Pay The $95 Fine

Obamacare: Not Enough Young, Healthy Enrollees to Offset Costs

Tuesday, 05 Nov 2013 12:21 PM

By Elliot Jager

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Younger, healthier Americans needed to make Obamacare financially viable are not signing up in sufficient numbers. Most enrollees have been people older than 50, many with pre-existing medical conditions.
 

The skew toward the older crowd raises concerns that there will not be enough payments from young people to offset the cost of providing coverage for the older, ailing population,the Wall Street Journal reported.

The early numbers, while statistically too small to draw conclusions, raise concerns about the practicality of the insurance marketplaces.

"We need a broad range of people to make this work, and we're not seeing that right now," Heather Thiltgen of Medical Mutual, one of Ohio's largest insurers, told the Journal. "We're seeing the population skewing older."

The target enrollee is about 40 years old.

If the older drift continues, a more expensive base of customers, older and less healthy, would drive up costs for everyone. The federal government has committed to reimburse insurers if they underestimated costs.

This still may not be enough to keep the system afloat should the overall customer pool be appreciably older than forecast.

Widespread problems with the HealthCare.gov system — which serves 36 states that are not operating their own marketplaces — have dissuaded younger, healthier people from enrolling. Those who cannot chance being without coverage have persevered.

Testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner said the administration is trying to fix the problems with youth enrollment as soon as the website is fully operational.

“Based on our analysis we will have it fully functioning by the end of November,”Tavenner told the committee.

Under questioning from Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski about how the administration would get more young people enrolled, Tavenner declined to details specifics, but said that it would be “a combination of media — both television, radio, and some print.”

The campaign would run through December, January, February and March, and would focus on specific markets. Tavenner would not identify those areas, either.

The young-to-old ratio is not much different in the states that run their own marketplaces and where the process is smoother, according to the Journal.

In Connecticut, where Access Health CT is the Health Insurance Marketplace, the largest insurer, WellPoint Inc., reported that most of its enrollees were between 55 and 64, according to the Journal.

Under the law, people who want their coverage to start on Jan. 1 must enroll by mid-December. Those who seek coverage sometime later in 2014 must enroll by March 31.

White House officials are optimistic that younger people will sign on in large numbers as the deadlines approach, the Journal said.

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