Fascinating piece at Reason.com about the selling of Obamacare. that gives us some background on how the campaign developed. On many occasions it has seemed that selling the law, rather than getting it to work, is the main political priority. On November 19, after the Healthcare.gov launch turned into a flaming dirigible of website crashes, President Obama's response to the crisis was that the White House would have to "remarket and rebrand" the law. Just days after his remarks, Organizing for Action, the 501(c)4 that advocates Obama's agenda, sent out an email urging supporters to use canned Obamacare talking points on their relatives that Thanksgiving. Seven months and several similarly terrible marketing campaigns later, insurance executives told Congress in May that the exchange website still had major technical problems. But Obamacare is unprecedented not just in the size of the propaganda campaign but also because the very success of the law hinges on...(Read Full Post)