{"id":24141,"date":"2017-03-28T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/03\/17\/twerking-for-obamacare-embarrassing-white-house-health-care-bracketology-gifs-slam-dunked\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:46:12","slug":"embarrassing-white-house-health-care-bracketology-gifs-slam-dunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/24141","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing White House ‘health care bracketology’ GIFs slam dunked"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JeromeEHudson\/status\/445615545141166080\n

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”:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WhiteHouse\/status\/445598183901503488\n

Among the 16 “competitors” in the Obamacare “tournament” is this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/charliespiering\/status\/445611169668009984\n

Yes, this is actually on the White House website as a reason to #GetCoveredNow:<\/p>\n

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Who hasn’t that happened to?<\/p>\n

This has gone beyond embarrassment.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BBaranowski\/status\/445610216789245952\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cheriebone\/status\/445612576613752832\n

Another “health care bracketology” competitor is a “birth control is free” happy duck GIF:<\/p>\n

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The White House doesn’t say who actually gets stuck with the bill for that particular “freebie.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ranjoesta\/status\/445609042053197824\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JSpo_Naug\/status\/445612683610828801\n

And those are just two of the 16 “competitors” in “health care bracketology.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Baffled” doesn’t even begin to describe the reactions:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/kesgardner\/status\/445616645277376512\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RBPundit\/status\/445608529320480768\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Holden114\/status\/445608780961968128\n

"There's a girl twerking on the White House website.."\n"It's a sign"\n"A sign of what?"\n"I don't know."— S.M (@redsteeze) March 17, 2014<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CuffyMeh\/status\/445630916056989697\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/schuellerj\/status\/445618582076944385\n

It’s the kind of thing that makes us long for the more dignified Obamacare sales approach of “Between Two Ferns.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include additional tweets.<\/p>

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/03\/17\/twerking-for-obamacare-embarrassing-white-house-health-care-bracketology-gifs-slam-dunked\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JeromeEHudson\/status\/445615545141166080 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\/445598183901503488 Among the 16 “competitors” in the Obamacare “tournament” is this: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/charliespiering\/status\/445611169668009984 Yes, this is actually on the White House website as a reason to #GetCoveredNow: Who hasn’t that … Continue reading Embarrassing White House ‘health care bracketology’ GIFs slam dunked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[412,6381,231,257,4168,263],"class_list":["post-24141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-policy","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-twerking","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14906727835719-ocaretwerk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}