With The Wheels Falling Off ObamaCare, WH Forced Into Campaign Mode

The Obama administration is becoming increasingly nervous that their precious government takeover of healthcare is rapidly falling apart before their eyes.

A new Government Accountability Office report describes a government far from where it is supposed to be when it comes to implementing the law. The Wall Street Journal describes it this morning in a must-read editorial.

“The GAO’s detailed portrait of blown deadlines, regulatory improvisation and general chaos explains why HHS has been anti-transparent.”

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“If HHS had any appreciation for basic accountability it would release the facts itself instead of going dark and running ObamaCare as a black-ops mission. For example, HHS has insurance premium filings for the 34 federal exchanges but it decreed in a May memo that it would keep that information secret until September. Could it be that the department doesn’t want people to know about the coming “rate shock” like that in California?”

 

Keeping health insurance premiums secret show just how nervous the government is over the impending law.

That’s where the White House comes in.

TIME Magazine details the lengths White House staff is going to try and sell ObamaCare on the American people. It portrays White House Deputy Senior Adviser David Simas, armed with a whiteboard and an array of special interest groups, as he leads the charge to convince the country this law isn’t a utter disaster.

“At the White House, health care implementation has become an obsession. Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spends two hours a day on Obamacare implementation, staffers said, and senior aides like Simas and Tara McGuinness, who joined the White House in April as a senior communications adviser, work on the issue nearly full-time. Hardly a week goes by without Obama finding some way to plug the effort as well.

‘The reason: 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.”

 

And there are some good reasons why it is so unpopular.

Democrat after Democrat told the public this would lower healthcare costs, now we see that’s clearly not the case. It’s actually raising premiums by $3,000—or even more in some states. They’re also ensuring that bureaucrats stand between women and their doctors.

The pains White House staff is going to show what a “train wreck” this law truly is. This law is hurting American families and small businesses and we need to make sure it is repealed.

Stand with the NRCC today. We’re working to grow the Republican majority in the House—the same folks that have stood against ObamaCare before and will continue to work for repeal in the future.