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Jarrett: Trump Admin Should Spend More on Marketing Obamacare Benefits

2017-07-04

[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Former White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett argued that the legislative process for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was "open and honest" and "all very transparent" compared to the GOP’s healthcare bill.

Jarrett slammed the Trump administration for not effectively "marketing" Obamacare to get more Americans to sign up for coverage.

"I mean, we had hundreds of meetings. We made hundreds of amendments. It was all very transparent. We invited the Republicans in for an open press session to answer all of their questions. It was a collaborative effort. The intent was to make it bipartisan and the intent was to be open and honest with the American people. Our scoring was put out for everybody to see because we wanted people to understand, before a decision was made, what was at stake and what we were trying to accomplish," Jarrett said during a Democrats Live event on Wednesday evening.

"Right now, everyone was scurrying around this week to read a very long and complicated bill, and the question you have to say was, ’if they’re proud of it, why were they hiding it behind closed doors?’ And my real hot-button was why were 13 men in a room deciding about healthcare that impacts my life? You have 21 women in the Senate. They couldn’t have picked one of those women to be there?" she added.

Jarrett criticized the Republican effort to roll back the Obamacare requirement that all health insurance plans cover maternity care.

Posted by:Besoeker

#14

Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-07-04 17:22

#13 I seriously doubt, they really gave a fig about providing anything to the people in the way of healthcare.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-04 16:08

#12 Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom Obumblecare was a catastrophe.

It has been a catastrophe. IMHO it was more about the Progs getting control of a large part of our economy as well as its citizenry.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-04 16:07

#11 I'm not interested in one goddamn thing any member of the Obama administration has to say unless its under oath while being questioned by a Federal prosecutor.

Posted by: Crusader 2017-07-04 15:22

#10 She's right. They were "all very transparent". The law wasn't and they were known liars

Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-04 13:58

#9 Hey, Obamacare sells itself. If Trump cannot get a deal through congress, then congress, the whole lot of them, can hang the Obamatross from their necks, just like the Ancient Mariner. And do some kind of penance.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-07-04 13:52

#8 someone point out where in the constitution it says a citizen must pay a business for insurance just to be a citizen

Posted by: 746 2017-07-04 13:32

#7 "Our scoring was put out for everybody to see because we wanted people to understand, before a decision was made, what was at stake and what we were trying to accomplish"

Jonathan Gruber was curiously unavailable for comment, as was Ben Rhodes.

Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-04 11:55

#6 Pardon me while I try to stop this nose bleed that reading her drivel gave me.

Can you freaking believe the gall of this woman, with all of the behind closed door stuff that has come out about how they deliberately lied to Congress, the American people, and to each other to pass a "health care reform" bill that is essentially a major payoff to the health insurance industry and so full of contradictory clauses that it has essentially petrified the health care industry and caused health care costs to freaking SOAR to astronomical new levels.

SO the CBO says that the new bill will cause 22 million to lose coverage. Okay Obamaboys, how many are going to lose coverage THIS DAMN YEAR as insurance companies continue to abandon exchanges.

The original bill was foisted off on us as a way to cover 32 million people who did not have health coverage, never mind that almost half of those did so because they were affluent or were very young and didn't seem to want it. The net result, which no one in the media will say, is that MORE people are without coverage NOW than before Obumblecare was passed. Millions lost coverage under sweetheart deal exemptions, millions more abandoned coverage because the mandatory coverages made it too expensive, and millions more lost what coverage they had before Obumblecare because their companies couldn't afford it.

Obumblecare was a catastrophe.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-07-04 11:16

#5 ValJar, as other Obamaites, have a lot of advice for the present administration. However, they left a terrible mess.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-04 10:41

#4 When a large business is failing you see them closing 'non productive' stores (See - Sears et al). How many counties are now without Obamacare exchanges? Reality is something beyond the comprehension of the Left (See - Venezuela)

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-04 07:41

#3 Maybe they can have two competing systems. Obamacare for liberals, Trumpcare for conservatives. See who lives longer.

Posted by: gorb 2017-07-04 05:48

#2 It solves the overpopulation problem?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-04 05:11

#1 On marketing....

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
~ Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Net worth 82.5B USD.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-04 05:11

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