States Promoting Insurance Exchanges: Maybe People Will Enroll if We Don’t Call it ‘Obamacare’
At the Minnesota State Fair, state employees are promoting a health-insurance marketplace called MNsure by handing out fans imprinted with pictures of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.
The legendary lumberjack and his sidekick are just part of a pitch—including a humorous reference to the state as the “land of 10,000 reasons to get health insurance”—that seeks to sidestep references to “Obamacare” or the long-raging national debate over the Affordable Care Act and instead promote the marketplace as a home-grown creation.
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