The White House, hoping that Obamacare can ride on the coattails of the NCAA basketball tournament, is featuring the GIF-heavy “16 sweetest reasons to #GetCoveredNow”:
http://twitter.com/#!/WhiteHouse/status/445598183901503488Among the 16 “competitors” in the Obamacare “tournament” is this:
http://twitter.com/#!/charliespiering/status/445611169668009984Yes, this is actually on the White House website as a reason to #GetCoveredNow:
Who hasn’t that happened to?
This has gone beyond embarrassment.
http://twitter.com/#!/BBaranowski/status/445610216789245952 http://twitter.com/#!/cheriebone/status/445612576613752832Another “health care bracketology” competitor is a “birth control is free” happy duck GIF:
The White House doesn’t say who actually gets stuck with the bill for that particular “freebie.”
http://twitter.com/#!/ranjoesta/status/445609042053197824 http://twitter.com/#!/JSpo_Naug/status/445612683610828801And those are just two of the 16 “competitors” in “health care bracketology.”
“Baffled” doesn’t even begin to describe the reactions:
http://twitter.com/#!/kesgardner/status/445616645277376512 http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/445608529320480768 http://twitter.com/#!/Holden114/status/445608780961968128"There's a girl twerking on the White House website.." "It's a sign" "A sign of what?" "I don't know."— S.M (@redsteeze) March 17, 2014
http://twitter.com/#!/CuffyMeh/status/445630916056989697 http://twitter.com/#!/schuellerj/status/445618582076944385It’s the kind of thing that makes us long for the more dignified Obamacare sales approach of “Between Two Ferns.”
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include additional tweets.