You’ve got to hand it to Senator Udall, when he lies to Coloradans and blows through taxpayer funds, he does it while lighting a huge pile of money on fire.
Senator Tom Coburn’s just-released “2013 Wastebook puts the – still rising— costs at $1.063 Billion dollars for the set-up ($319 million) and advertising ($684 million) of the federal and state Obamacare websites. Just under $44 million of the former has come to Colorado to set up our own website; which leaves us here at the Peak wondering: what exactly did they use the rest of the $43.5 million on?
Shamefully, this begins to look like a bargain, especially when the Colorado exchange ads were so bad they got their own shout-out in the Wastebook:
“Colorado is spending more than $20 million to promote the program hoping to enroll 136,000 patients in health exchange network by the end of March. So far, fewer than 4,000 have been enrolled, though one of the enrollee’s turned out to be a man’s pet dog. The state’s ad campaign compares enrolling in Obamacare to winning at a casino and features an Elvis impersonator.”
The exchange spent $20 million to get 4,000 enrolled so far? At $5,000 per enrollee, it’d just been cheaper to use the advertising budget to buy them all health insurance.
If that wasn’t worse enough for Udall, according to the Hill the $319 million dollars is only what was actually spent through the end of October and not the “…$677 million if the agency makes good on all of its obligations.”
Wait. End of October? That’s not even the price to fix the damn thing?
Ever since the promise of “you like your plan, you keep your plan” was shown to be a complete and utter lie, Democrats like Udall have been trying to shuffle Obamacare out of the limelight. We understand as we would have done the same thing if we, like Udall, were the deciding vote.
Get the rest of the "liars" while we're at it. That would be Polis, Perlmutter, DeGette and don't forget Bennet in 2016!
Udall has supported Obamacare from the beginning and he still supports it, in spite of his constituents 62.5% opposition to Obamacare. He claims to have had a "telephone townhall" to hear his constituents wishes but he and his staff presceened "OUT" of the townhall anyone who opposed Obamacare so he could claim he heard "support" for it. What a fraud, what a LIAR! Fire the liar in Nov 2014!
Udall attempting to regain high ground, after voting against pensions for wounded warriors, as he demands info from nominee Krass on CIA "torture" report from years ago, or he'll put a hold on her nomination.
What a scumbag. What will he be doing after next election? Bye Bye Doofus
Would someone please post that Obamacare ad featuring Elvis on youtube!
Mark Udall owns it. On Udall's FB wall, "With Coloradans by my side, I’ll keep fighting to ensure the Affordable Care Act works for Colorado families and helps to keep our communities healthy." (12/11/13)
Rubber Stamp for O-BOMB-A. Its time to try Ken Buck
deciding vote… you made your decision buddy… gonner