Conservative group launches $2.6M campaign targeting ObamaCare - The Hill

The conservative American Action Network is set to launch a two-week, $2.6 million advertising campaign urging Congress to repeal and replace ObamaCare. 

The campaign will target 41 congressional districts throughout the country with digital, print, cable TV and direct mail advertisements focusing on the "failures" of ObamaCare and the GOP Congress's plans to do away with it. 

The ads will air in Republican congressional districts across 23 states, including California, Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania. 

The campaign expands on a previously announced $1.5 million tv and digital advertising campaign by AAN. 

“The current healthcare system does not work and has hurt millions of Americans. It’s time for a healthcare system that works,” said AAN Executive Director Corry Bliss. 

The campaign comes as Democrats face an uphill battle to save President Obama's signature healthcare law. 

Republicans are prepared to repeal ObamaCare through a special budget maneuver that is immune to a Democratic filibuster and only needs 50 votes to pass the Senate. 

Republicans are in Philadelphia for the rest of the week mapping out how they will repeal and replace the law. 

Republicans have been at odds about what a replacement should look like, if it should keep any ObamaCare provisions, and when the repeal should take place. 

President Trump last week also signed an executive order directing federal agencies to "ease the burden of ObamaCare." 

The order did not direct any specific actions, instead giving broad authority to the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to take actions available to them under the law to ease regulatory requirements from ObamaCare. 

 

It pushes agencies to target provisions that impose a "fiscal burden" on a state or a "cost" or "regulatory burden" on individuals or businesses. 

 

It is not clear what practical effects will come from the order.