The Obamacare Sales Pitch Paid for by Your Tax Dollars

Kathryn Nix / April 09, 2010

The Department of Health and Human Services recently launched its new website, www.healthreform.gov, to serve as an informative source on what’s to come under new health care law.  Unfortunately, the website provides little substance and more of the same rhetoric we have heard from the administration regarding health care reform. Americans should not be fooled: HHS will use the new website to frame the issue of health care reform in a way that is favorable to the new law, shedding no light on the crucial details Americans need to know concerning the federal overhaul of the nation’s health care system.

Now that  Obamacare is law, Americans will need to know exactly what the consequences will be in order to prepare for the impact on their personal lives.  But instead of offering detailed information and help locating pertinent pieces of the legislation, the new HHS website provides little more than fluff on the issue.  This may have been tolerable during the health care debate, but now it is unacceptable. (more…)