The Washington Post profiles a White House staffer who went from being a field lieutenant in President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign to helping oversee the effort to persuade people to sign up for insurance under the health law.
The Washington Post: For White House Staffer, The Health-Care Law May Be Harder Sell Than Obama Was
Two years ago, Marlon Marshall was deputy national field director for President Obama’s disciplined, centralized reelection campaign. His job was to mobilize enthusiastic supporters to do something that cost them nothing: cast a vote. Now he is at the White House working on a very different, and arguably more difficult, effort: helping persuade Americans to get -; and in many cases pay for -; health insurance (Eilperin, 2/20).
Also, the president is expected to resubmit a proposal to require wealthy seniors to pay more for Medicare benefits as part of his proposed 2015 budget –