With the elections coming in  November, Obama and the Democrats are planning a massive  PR campaign to  tout all the wonderful benefits  of the recently passed health care legislation.  Despite the fact  that the administration has failed to connect with voters for  over  a year now, Obama  is confident, because this  time they are armed with real tangible benefits resulting from the  legislation.   These benefits are being implemented as we speak, ahead of schedule.

The two big benefits that  Democrats  are championing are:

* Children   as old as 26 must be covered under their parents

* A   whopping $250 check to Medicare recipients for drug benefits.

Politics is not without irony -  the Republicans   tried the very same thing  the spring before they were voted out of office in 2008.

There is only one major flaw  to their PR plans; they passed a lousy bill.  The last time the  Obama administration decided to do a PR campaign for poor legislation,  Obama’s stimulus was attacked because they couldn’t hide the padding  of the jobs “saved and created” on their website.  The immutable  truth is that good legislation needs no PR.

Health Care PR is  just a sign of disconnect regarding what they hoped their bill would  do and what their bill actually does.  So, President Obama can  talk up a $250 rebate check all he wants, the public doesn’t have  to look too far to see the negatives, but just in case they do, below  is a Instapundit- inspired taste of what has been published in the media  on the Health Care bill passed in March.

Here is how great the Health care bill is for consumers:

* Patients   confused about the new health care law

* Didn’t   anyone in congress notice that there was already a doctor shortage?

* Get   ready for the Medicare Advantage cuts

* Large   companies encouraged by health care  law to drop employer coverage

* One   million low-income employees to get booted from their plans

* Government   staffers kicked off their health care plans

* You   will need a prescription to buy Tylenol on your FSA

Here is how great the Health care bill is for health care providers:

* Plans   for 24 new physician-owned hospitals canceled

* Doctors   may be forced to drop Medicare patients, because  the Democrats  dropped the doctor fix from health care reform for political purposes and   now they’ve missed the deadline to stave off huge draconian Medicare  reimbursement cuts 10 days ago.   Meanwhile, congress   went on vacation.

* In fact, Texas  doctors are  already dropping Medicare

* Reimbursements   to hospitals that treat the uninsured will get government reimbursement  rates cut

How about how wonderful the health care  law is for companies:

* AT&T   books a billion in health care loses

* $970   million loss to Verizon

* Lockheed   and Boeing take $250 million combined

* John   Deere takes $150 million loss

* Health   care costs Caterpillar $100 million

* 3M   has $90 million hit

* PPG   records $85 million

* AK   Steele takes $30 Million loss

* $20   million from Valero

* Alcoa   takes hit as well

* Democrat   Congressman Waxman cancels his health care witch hunt when he finally realized that the  health care legislation really does hurt businesses

* Drug   maker Eli Lilly will lose $950 million to $1.1 billion in revenue in next two years

* Forces   insurance company out of business

* Medical   device makers to cut employees

* Companies   to drown in health care overhaul tax paperwork, literally

Of course the bill is great for small businesses:

* Fees   on companies with 50 or more employees

* Health   Care tanning tax decimates small tanning shops that 28 million Americans   visit

* Avalanche   of paperwork to hit small businesses too

* Obamacare  is so great for small businesses that they are suing to repeal the law

The States are ecstatic about all the new health care obligations:

* Law   takes away Medicaid rebate,  $50 million in first year from California

* Though downplayed by  Democrats, the  law shifts costs  of Medicaid onto the States.   Last time I checked, the States were broke and even “mild” increases  are devastating.  In   fact, the States can’t afford their Medicaid obligations that they  currently have let alone an increase. 

* CT   left out of a Federal Medicare Windfall boondoggle

The law was written flawlessly!:

* The moment the bill was  passed, congress  had to  pass a bill to fix it! 

* Law   didn’t actually cover children as the Democrats touted

* Insurance   companies confused  over how to account for medical costs in new legislation

* Bill   allows for insurance companies to rapidly raise rates

Democrats broke  nearly every promise made on the health care bill:

* Obama’s  health  care legislation would strengthen Medicare: Chief  Actuary for  Health and Human Services says it’s a lie.

* If  you like your  plan, you can keep your plan:  Companies  look to  kick employees off their health care plans, law  to strip a  million low-income insured off their plans this September, government   staffers kicked off their health care plans

* Health   care will cost under a trillion over the last 6 years of the 10 year  projection: CBO  says that  it will cost over a trillion

* Health care  legislation  will lower budget deficits in the ten year window: CBO   says, that isn’t true

* No   federal dollars will be used to fund abortions: Federal   dollars will be going to fund abortions

Meanwhile, all the  conservative  “disinformation” proved true:

How many times did  the left whine  about all the “disinformation”  on health care?  Yet after the health care bill was passed, the  left came out in true gotcha-style to announce that “yes” it was  all true.

* NY   Times Paul Krugman says that death panels  will save us lots of money

* NY   Times David Leonhardt admits that health care plan  was primarily to promote socialism

News from MA’s health  care system:

The bill passed in congress  was modeled after MA’s health care system.  So what news have  we seen from the future of our health care overhaul?

* Mass   Companies taking losses

* State   Treasurer predicts new health care law will wipe out the economy in  four years

* MA   health care mandate hurts low-income families

Most importantly, every single  link above was from just the last three months since the law passed.   The democrats will have far bigger problems once people start reading  about how they need health   insurance to avoid jail time  and that the term health care subsidy, does not mean free, leaving  many forced  to buy health insurance that they still can’t afford.