{"id":41389,"date":"2014-03-11T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/gladhanding-obamacare.html"},"modified":"2014-03-11T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:23:39","slug":"gladhanding-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/gladhanding-obamacare.html","title":{"rendered":"Gladhanding Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">So if you&#39;re the President and trying to get younger Americans to sign up for insurance under the ACA, do you write op-eds in the NY Times? \u00a0Tour some college campuses and put up some flyers? Mention it in the State of the Union address?<\/p>\n<p>Or do you film a clip at &quot;FunnyOrDie.com&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the latter is the best idea, because right now that site is the number 1 referrer of web traffic to Healthcare.gov. \u00a0(It&#39;s also a pretty amusing segment:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/18e820ec3f\/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-president-barack-obama\">http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/18e820ec3f\/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-president-barack-obama<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117903011098040166012\" oid=\"117903011098040166012\">Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107980702132412632948'>Alexander Howard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, that worked. According to officials at <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105479712798762608629\" oid=\"105479712798762608629\">The White House<\/a><\/span>, \u00a0FunnyOrDie.com is the number 1 referrer of traffic to <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112755994883163074657\" oid=\"112755994883163074657\">HealthCare.gov<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 today. <a href=\"http:\/\/e-pluribusunum.com\/2014\/03\/11\/president-obama-jokes-between-the-ferns-to-connect-the-young-and-uninsured-to-healthcare-gov\/\">http:\/\/e-pluribusunum.com\/2014\/03\/11\/president-obama-jokes-between-the-ferns-to-connect-the-young-and-uninsured-to-healthcare-gov\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WeAKAWAKrHE' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if you&#39;re the President and trying to get younger Americans to sign up for insurance under the ACA, do you write op-eds in the NY Times? \u00a0Tour some college campuses and put up some flyers? Mention it in the State of the Union address? Or do you film a clip at &quot;FunnyOrDie.com&quot;? Apparently the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/gladhanding-obamacare.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gladhanding Obamacare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13327,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/katherine_blogs_the_inaug.html","url_meta":{"origin":41389,"position":0},"title":"Katherine blogs the Inauguration","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jan-09 3:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or, rather, journals it while at school. 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