{"id":18702,"date":"2013-08-28T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18702"},"modified":"2013-08-28T16:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T20:54:29","slug":"the-obamacare-delay-that-could-be-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18702\/the-obamacare-delay-that-could-be-fatal\/","title":{"rendered":"The ObamaCare Delay that Could be Fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don\u2019t mean news of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/28\/us-usa-healthcare-obamacare-idUSBRE97R04X20130828\" target=\"_blank\">yet another delay in the controversial health law\u2019s implementation<\/a> \u2013 this time a Reuters report that the Health and Human Services department is pushing back by two weeks its timetable for finalizing deals with health insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>I mean today\u2019s announcement that former President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-taps-bill-clinton-make-case-obamacare_751324.html \" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton is being tasked with explaining what\u2019s so great about ObamaCare<\/a> to the country. Clinton\u2019s speech next week is being billed as the first of several high-profile speeches designed to sell the law to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/health_care_law \" target=\"_blank\">54 percent of Americans who don\u2019t like it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, if anybody in politics can make this train wreck look good, it\u2019s Bill Clinton. But why would President Obama wait till now, after three-and-a-half years of public relations futility, to bring in his party\u2019s best spokesman?<\/p>\n<p>Simple: With just over a month to go before ObamaCare\u2019s enrollment begins the president and his administration are in full-blown panic mode. Nothing is on schedule. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robwaters\/2013\/08\/22\/obamacare-enrollment-campaign-works-to-break-through-information-fog\/ \" target=\"_blank\">multi-million dollar ad campaign may not attract enough people to enroll<\/a>. And, oh yeah, we\u2019re about to intervene in Syria\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>If Clinton gets any traction with his speeches it will be of limited value because so much of the public\u2019s mind has been made up in the years since the law was passed. Prior to that, who knows? As a matter of Politics 101, failing to use such a successful political spokesman strikes me as a huge wasted opportunity. Of all the delays with ObamaCare, putting off Clinton\u2019s rhetorical talents may be the most fatal to the law because \u2013 perhaps \u2013 they could have done so much to keep it alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don\u2019t mean news of yet another delay in the controversial health law\u2019s implementation \u2013 this time a Reuters report that the Health and Human Services department is pushing back by two weeks its timetable for finalizing deals with health insurance companies. I mean today\u2019s announcement that former President Bill Clinton is being tasked [&hellip;]<\/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":[143,501,4191,3308,1829,35,1447],"class_list":["post-18702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-delay","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702","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=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18705,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions\/18705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}