What Happened to the Obamacare Propaganda Agency?

With Obamacare celebrating one year, the group that was supposed to tout its benefits has gotten strangely quiet:

Democrats are under siege as they mark the first anniversary of health care reform Wednesday — and they won't get much help from the star-studded, $125 million support group they were once promised.

Wal-Mart Watch founder Andrew Grossman unveiled the Health Information Campaign with great fanfare last June. Tom Daschle and Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki, were expected to lead the effort. They'd have help from former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn. They'd have an office in Washington with 10 or 15 operatives backing the Affordable Care Act and those who supported it.

And they'd have money to spend: Grossman hoped for $25 million a year for five years.

But nine months later, the Health Information Campaign has all but disappeared. Its website hasn't been updated since the end of last year. Its executive director and communications director are gone. There's no sign that it has any money. And neither Daschle nor Dunn will return calls asking about it.

Grossman laid out the plans for the campaign in an interview with POLITICO in June, saying the group hoped to add corporate representatives to its board and then win people over by speaking to them with “respect.”

“The law is in effect, and the best thing we can do now is explain it,” Grossman said then.

But asked this week about the Health Information Campaign, Grossman declined to talk on the record.

There's more at the link. The money is probably now safely in the pockets of various Dem special interest groups and will reappear as campaign ads next year.