The White House has directed cabinet secretaries and senior officials to promote President Obama's health care law in any college graduation speeches they give this year, Businessweek reports:
To counter the criticism, the White House has told all Cabinet members and senior officials to use commencement speeches to drive home for graduating college students and their parents the benefits they gain from a provision of the law that allows young adults to stay on their family’s insurance plans until they turn 26.
That directive is just one aspect of the large, coordinated White House effort to sell the American people on the benefits of Obamacare, which a recent poll showed 42 percent of Americans do not know is a law. The plan includes a multimillion-dollar public relations contract announced last month.
Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett (Wellesley), Vice President Joe Biden (University of Pennsylvania), and a number of former cabinet secretaries like Hilda Solis and Steven Chu will speak at graduations this year.
