{"id":15420,"date":"2012-08-09T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2012-08-09T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:14:23","slug":"an-obamacare-exchange-by-any-other-name%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15420\/an-obamacare-exchange-by-any-other-name%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"An ObamaCare Exchange By Any Other Name\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

God bless residents of the Pacific Northwest for casting rightful suspicion<\/a> on ObamaCare\u2019s state-based, federally-directed, health insurance exchanges:<\/p>\n

Focus groups in Oregon expressed emotions about buying coverage that included “skepticism” and “frustration,” and some individuals and small businesses used “black hole” and other less-kind terms to refer to insurance, brand design firm Sandstrom Partners told the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange in a presentation made available by the exchange.<\/p>\n

The word exchange “raises some suspicions of loopholes and fine print” and “implies current coverage may needed to be traded for something else,” wrote communications company GMMB in a presentation to the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange. Part of the problem, GMMB said, was that the word was “perceived as a verb and unfamiliar as a noun” and reminded people of the New York Stock Exchange or military exchange stores.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

Washington state is leaning toward calling its program Washington HealthLink, as long as it doesn’t conflict with existing trademarks, and plans to use green and blue in its logo design because the colors are considered to be reassuring, said Michael Marchand, the state’s exchange director. The exchange’s board of directors will make the final decision on the name, he said.<\/p>\n

Focus group participants had also been asked to consider HealthChoice but it “makes some wonder if Washington State is making the choice for them,” consultants and the exchange board concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> article from which these excerpts are culled goes on to detail other stories of states trying to brand government-created \u201cmarketplaces\u201d as something other than a first big step to government-run health care, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

No matter what you call an ObamaCare exchange, it\u2019s still an entry point for socialized medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God bless residents of the Pacific Northwest for casting rightful suspicion on ObamaCare\u2019s state-based, federally-directed, health insurance exchanges: Focus groups in Oregon expressed emotions about buying coverage that included “skepticism” and “frustration,” and some individuals and small businesses used “black hole” and other less-kind terms to refer to insurance, brand design firm Sandstrom Partners told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,3308,1829,35,772,1007],"class_list":["post-15420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-oregon","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15427,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}