Big Government Pays Google to Direct Searches to Pro-ObamaCare Propaganda: "
If you type 'ObamaCare' into Google, the first link that comes up is to HealthCare.gov, a government site extolling government control of the healthcare sector paid for with government money — that is, your money. Also paid for with your money was the link itself.
Politico's Ben Smith, in a post entitled 'HHS Buys 'ObamaCare,'' quotes an official from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who confirms that this clear attempt to influence what Americans read about Obamacare does, indeed, represent your tax dollars at work: ''We are using a bunch of search term[s] to help point people to HealthCare.gov. [It's] [p]art of our online efforts to help get accurate information to people about the new law (i.e. [we] also use Facebook, Twitter, blogs and webcasts),' an HHS official confirmed by e-mail.'
The "accurate information" that Americans will glean about the massive health care overhaul from this HHS website is of the same sort that President Obama has supplied all along — such as that Obamacare would lower health costs (only 17 percent of Americans believe this), increase the quality of care (only 22 percent believe this), and reduce deficits (only 17 percent believe this).
You won't find anything on the HHS site about how the Medicare chief actuary projects that Obamacare would bend the cost curve upward by $311 billion by 2019 in relation to costs in the absence of Obamacare; about how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that, by 2016, in the non-group market, the average American family's health care premiums under Obamacare would increase by $2,100 per year in relation to what those premiums would be without Obamacare; about how the CBO projects that Obamacare would cost over $2 trillion in its real first decade (2014 to 2023) alone; or about how the administration's internal ('midrange') estimates are that more than half of all employer-provided health plans wouldn't be grandfathered in under Obamacare — and that, therefore, if you like your health care, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to keep your health care.
For that sort of information, you'll have to consult sites that — because they don't use taxpayer dollars to pay Google to list them first — appear somewhat lower in the pecking order.
The vicious circle turns and turns: the bigger government gets, the more of your money it has to promote its own growth.
On tips from Byron and BURNING HOT.
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