Vermont Spending Nearly $3 Million on PR for Obamacare Exchange

Vermont has agreed to a $2.8-million contract with a D.C.-based public affairs firm to promote the state’s health insurance exchange mandated by Obamacare. As Vermont-based watchdog site vtdigger.org reported earlier this week, the administration of Democratic governor Peter Shumlin is paying nearly a third of its $9-million, federally-funded Obamacare “messaging” budget to GMMB, which has offices on K Street in Washington, D.C., as well as in Seattle.

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