Obama campaign dodges accusations that pro-Obamacare video is all ‘fluff’

The Obama campaign is not commenting on accusations from opponents that its YouTube video singing the raises of the passage of the Obamacare is all “fluff”.

They say the video which talks about how passing Obamacare made America a better place fails to makes its case.

“It’s all fluff because didn’t get into the specific benefits claim is in this bill,” said Ryan Ellis, tax policy director with Americans for Tax Reform. “They promised it as a value, but all the video does is show a certain fuzzy ethereal value.

“All it says is that it is a good thing to have national health insurance, but it lacks any content that supporters of the video might like.”

John Berlau, senior fellow for finance and access to capital in the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the video ignores the problem that government interference has when it comes to making health care more expensive.

Republicans introduced ideas like Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Savings Accounts in an effort to reduce costs, Berlau said.

The video glosses over the 20 higher taxes  under Obamacare that will hit younger Americans particularly hard, including the Medicine cabinet tax, the cap on Health Savings Accounts, and the Individual Mandate excise tax among others.

“What you don’t see in the video is families losing the amount they can put away in their Flexibile Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts and what they can spend it on or rationed care,” Berlau said. “They talk about the problems that existed before Obamacare, but they don’t say how Obmacare changed it. “

Ellis argues that if the Obama campaign were truly proud of what Obamacare does, the video would be talking about it. But it doesn’t.

“From our perspective, the biggest thing they are glossing over is that there are now 20 new higher taxes in this bill,” Ellis said. “The bill is primarily a health care bill and secondarily it was a tax bill.

“It was the largest tax bill of the last 20 years.”

You won’t find anything in the video referencing the huge tax increases like the 3.9 percent surtax on capital gains and investment income that kicks in next January when Obama hopes to enjoy the start of his second term.

“The video cuts both ways,” Ellis said. “It doesn’t contain anything positive or negative; it’s all fluff.”

Berlau argues that opponents need to develop YouTube videos of their own showing how people have suffered under Obamacare.

“The assertions in the video are easily disproven,” Berlau said. Opponents need to continually remind of problems with Obamacare.