President Obama Generates ACA Publicity with Sunglasses

"Obama 'selfie stick' video: End of Western civilization or hip marketing?" asks the Christian Science Monitor headline. "In a BuzzFeed video, President Obama uses a selfie stick, tries on sunglasses, makes 'you’re looking good' gestures, and so forth. Why is he doing this? He gets in a long plug for signing up for Obamacare coverage." See video. Buzz Feed reported that as of yesterday afternoon, people had downloaded the video 54 million times.

Most States Refuse to Set Up Health Insurance Exchanges

“The Obama administration said Friday that more than half the states had rejected its pleas to set up their own health insurance exchanges, dealing a setback to President Obama’s hopes that Republicans would join a White House campaign to provide health insurance to all Americans,” according to a New York Times post.“Friday was the deadline for states to notify the federal government of their plans, and administration officials had been hoping that Mr. Obama’s re-election would overcome resistance to the new health care law.Federal officials said they knew of 17 states that intended to run their own exchanges, as Congress intended.” Read more. FYI: The exchanges can set up insurance programs that would help with the coverage of vision care for children.