Well, at least we know what Uncle Rico is up to now…may we all empathize with the struggling door to door Obamacare salesman.
As The New York Times reports: Obama’s Vote-Getting Tactics Struggle to Find the Uninsured
The hunt for the uninsured in Broward County got underway one recent afternoon when 41 canvassers, armed with electronic maps on Samsung tablets, set off through working-class neighborhoods to peddle the Affordable Care Act door to door. Four hours later, they had made contact with 2,623 residents and signed up exactly 25 people.
The campaign is staffed by organizations deploying thousands of paid and volunteer canvassers across the country. Planned Parenthood, one of the most aggressive groups, has raised millions of dollars for the effort. It is paying about 400 workers like Ms. Morwin $12 an hour. They are knocking on an average of 18,000 doors a day in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
(h/t Wall Street Journal editorial page)
WSJ: SELLING OBAMACARE DOOR TO DOOR
If you think your job is tough, try hawking the Affordable Care Act on the streets of Florida. The New York Times reports on an effort by Planned Parenthood and other liberal political organizations to find the law’s intended beneficiaries: “The hunt for the uninsured in Broward County got underway one recent afternoon when 41 canvassers, armed with electronic maps on Samsung tablets, set off through working-class neighborhoods to peddle the Affordable Care Act door to door. Four hours later, they had made contact with 2,623 residents and signed up exactly 25 people.
“Many of their targets, people identified on sophisticated computer lists generated in Washington as unlikely to have health insurance, had moved away. Some were not home. Many said they already had insurance through Medicare, their parents or a job. A few were hostile at the mere mention of President Obama’s health care law. ‘We’re going to repeal that,” one man said gruffly as he shut the door in the face of a canvasser…”