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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 09:00 AM Jul 2017

THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN. Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It

Source: The Daily Beast




The administration is tasked with overseeing the health care law. Instead, it has made a major social media push to undermine it.

SAM STEIN
07.20.17 1:00 AM ET

The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it.

The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push as well as video testimonials designed at damaging public opinion of President Obama’s health care law, is far more robust and sustained than has been publicly revealed or realized.

The strategy has caught the eye of legal experts and Democrats in Congress, who have asked government agencies to investigate whether the administration has misused funds and engaged in covert propaganda in its efforts to damage and overturn the seven-year-old health care law. It’s also roiled Obama administration veterans, who argue that the current White House is not only abdicating its responsibilities to administer the law but sabotaging it in an effort to facilitate its undoing by Congress.

“I’m on a daily basis horrified by leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services who seem intent on taking healthcare away from the constituents they are supposed to serve,” former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “We always believed that delivering health and human services was the mission of the department. That seems to not be the mission of the current leadership.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-used-obamacare-money-to-run-ads-against-it

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THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN. Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2017 OP
Good grief! Shit is flowing at the speed of light. Are we going to drown in it? Nt Ninga Jul 2017 #1
I feel like we already are .. ananda Jul 2017 #18
Another Impeachable Offense. mobeau69 Jul 2017 #2
I think the fact he is quoted as saying "let it fail" forgotmylogin Jul 2017 #7
He has officially declared war on the American people NastyRiffraff Jul 2017 #15
And when he finally goes at some point... forgotmylogin Jul 2017 #17
Yep. dalton99a Jul 2017 #22
Department of Health and Human Services FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) website mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2017 #3
That was predictable Renew Deal Jul 2017 #4
I want this stuff screamed from the capital steps by d.c.dems. lindysalsagal Jul 2017 #5
This pisses me off! n/t Yonnie3 Jul 2017 #6
MISUSING FUNDS- Republicans are STEALING AMERICANS HEALTHCARE FUNDS! Sunlei Jul 2017 #8
Yep. Delmette2.0 Jul 2017 #14
Trump installed a gang of crooks and theives in cabinet positions for just this reason Fla Dem Jul 2017 #9
Another assault against us. gademocrat7 Jul 2017 #10
"roiled"? HuskyOffset Jul 2017 #11
It's an ordinary metaphor, used many times. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 #19
Thank you HuskyOffset Jul 2017 #24
Sure Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 #25
Holy shit HuskyOffset Jul 2017 #27
Think 'boiling mad' and you'll understand the metaphor of 'roiling' ... mr_lebowski Jul 2017 #23
this is how bad they really are. barbtries Jul 2017 #12
KnR Hekate Jul 2017 #13
I have to step back orangecrush Jul 2017 #16
Not that we didn't already know this, but what a... 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #20
Can we broaden that...... SergeStorms Jul 2017 #32
Sure, why not. 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #34
Reading further down in the article - they ALSO sabotaged the ACA website to hell... CousinIT Jul 2017 #21
Instead of supporting the health of the American people Achilleaze Jul 2017 #26
Can we send them there now??? n/t jazzcat23 Jul 2017 #31
My theory..... SergeStorms Jul 2017 #33
I know this has been said a thousand times before, but the thing that is Dark n Stormy Knight Jul 2017 #28
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 #29
kick Stuart G Jul 2017 #30
They are all Grifters guss Jul 2017 #35

forgotmylogin

(7,524 posts)
7. I think the fact he is quoted as saying "let it fail"
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 10:04 AM
Jul 2017

regarding healthcare laws that people depend on violates something in the oath of office he took. Someone enterprising could bring him up on potentially millions of manslaughter (?) charges.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
15. He has officially declared war on the American people
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:18 AM
Jul 2017

That's what we get for daring to protest the Deathcare bill. Not only does he not care that people will die, he probably revels in it. All those Democrats dead! What he doesn't realize is that it's not only Democrats protesting.

forgotmylogin

(7,524 posts)
17. And when he finally goes at some point...
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jul 2017

hopefully sooner than later, I totally expect he will deride the American people for not "deserving" him.

Delmette2.0

(4,164 posts)
14. Yep.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:13 AM
Jul 2017

States can use Federal funds for just the designated grant.
Individuals can use Federal funds (SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare) for only approved line items.
If it is fraud for us then it is fraud for the Federal Government.

Fla Dem

(23,637 posts)
9. Trump installed a gang of crooks and theives in cabinet positions for just this reason
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 10:13 AM
Jul 2017

The have lived their lives, including Trump, scheming ways to stiff everyone while lining their own pockets. That's what they're doing now to the foundations of our government.

gademocrat7

(10,653 posts)
10. Another assault against us.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 10:18 AM
Jul 2017

Chump and his cabal need to be held accountable for their criminal activities.

HuskyOffset

(888 posts)
11. "roiled"?
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 10:25 AM
Jul 2017

Uh, I think the author must have meant "riled", seeing as Obama administration veterans aren't a liquid that is moving around in a turbulent manner. Maybe I'm just projecting, because if I were them, I'd definitely be riled, but I wouldn't be moving around in a turbulent manner. Might just be me, though.

HuskyOffset

(888 posts)
24. Thank you
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 04:59 PM
Jul 2017

Thank you for correcting me. I've never seen it used that way before. Would you happen to have a link to any of the many times it's been used that way? Thanks!

orangecrush

(19,512 posts)
16. I have to step back
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:32 AM
Jul 2017

From this.

Now.

Not only do they want to take our healthcare, but just reading about what they do is itself damaging to my health.

3catwoman3

(23,970 posts)
20. Not that we didn't already know this, but what a...
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 01:36 PM
Jul 2017

...thoroughly despicable SOB Trump is, and so is everyone who is associated with him or supports him.

A pox on all their houses.

SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
32. Can we broaden that......
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:14 PM
Jul 2017

to include ALL Republicans? They're aiding and abetting the S.O.B. all the way. I think they should all share the "despicable" qualification.

CousinIT

(9,238 posts)
21. Reading further down in the article - they ALSO sabotaged the ACA website to hell...
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 01:58 PM
Jul 2017

...lots of anti-ACA propaganda there, and sends people elsewhere for insurance coverage. Pfft.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
26. Instead of supporting the health of the American people
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 05:35 PM
Jul 2017

...freaking republicans are all going to Hell for ceaselessly pissing on Christ's teachings.

SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
33. My theory.....
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:16 PM
Jul 2017

is that most of them don't believe in any of that "Christian stuff", but the proles do. They use it as a method to control the proles.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
28. I know this has been said a thousand times before, but the thing that is
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:58 PM
Jul 2017

even more disturbing than the Trump admin being a passel of blatant crooks is that 36% of Americans are still supporting this cesspool.

I have to keep reminding myself that's in large part due to the diabolically excellent job RW media has done brainwashing them into believing Dems are even worse. But, of course, that's just another awful problem we don't seem to know how to combat.

guss

(239 posts)
35. They are all Grifters
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:40 AM
Jul 2017

Stealing money to increase stocks for big Pharma and gonna pocket it like this guy.

Just a bunch of scumbag Grifters.
Hell has to dig deeper hole for a lower basement for these soulless bastards!!

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