Marco Rubio Stands Against Obamacare TV Ads

Late on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to pull the plug on a television ad campaign promoting the federal health-care law signed by President Barack Obama. The ad campaign is estimated to cost around $8.7 million.

This blatant misuse of federal dollars to promote a fundamentally flawed law is extremely concerning, especially considering the extensive unknowns surrounding the coming launch and implementation of Obamacare, Rubio wrote. Until critical questions can be answered regarding the availability and type of health insurance to be provided by Obamacare, it is unconscionable to spend taxpayer dollars to promote and advertise Obamacare plans that have yet to be finalized.

While the administration should be abandoning this disastrous law, instead it is imprudently and blindly promoting poor policies that will harm Americans and American businesses, and misappropriating public funds in an effort to sell bad ideas to good people, Rubio continued.