State will use same outreach plan for ObamaCare that the Republicans used for Medicare Part D, after conspiracy theories campaign by right wingers failed.

Remember the flap over the Obama administration's attempts to hire groups to promote the Affordable Care Act? Heck, people weren't supposed to know anything about it. Here's a sample of some of the conspiracy theories I gathered from Media Matters:

Fox Guest Chris Plante Compares Health Care Outreach To Propaganda In North Korea, East Germany

Limbaugh: Purpose Of Obamacare Exchange Outreach Is To "Set Up A Permanent One-Party System In This Country"

Betsy McCaughey Claims Obamacare Outreach A Plot To Create "Beholden" Democratic Majority: McCaughey claimed, "In truth, the money is going to build Democratic Party enrollment." Anyone who remembers the days of James Curley, Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall gets the picture. If you were poor or a newcomer to this country, you went to the local ward boss and got whatever you needed in exchange for your vote. Now the Obama health law is institutionalizing this corrupt style of politics across the country. Whether you live in California or New York, local community activists and unions will be recruiting people to enroll in ObamaCare and sign up to be part of the permanent, beholden Democratic voting majority.

Fox's Malkin Joins Health Care Navigator Conspiracy Brigade: Malkin claimed the navigators would be "yet another Obama threat to Americans' privacy," saying Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has a "sordid snooping history" and concluding "you can't trust sleazy Sebelius to navigate anything with her broken ethical compass."

Keep in mind, Republicans are notorious for their ability to "project." Are they just now telling us this was there plan all along when they promoted Medicare Part D? 

Not only did Part D stumble badly out of the gate, like ObamaCare might just do now, but outreach was their only way to correct all of the problem they had navigating seniors through the intentionally convoluted maze of choices.

It's ironic that the Walker Authority is now using what politicians learned from that experience to get the message out, even as they try to scare people, create conspiracy theories like those listed above, and confuse everyone else.  

Here's State Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades admitting ObamaCare "outreach" is just what the Republicans did themselves (hypocrites), minus the supposed "propaganda." From the Post Crescent: 

"We want to take some of the things we learned from Medicare Part D and apply them to how we’re going to implement and educate about the Affordable Care Act. In Part D, there was a giant media blitz by the government, trying to explain, and basically, people said, 'Hmm. That was sponsored by the government, saying it’s good for me. I’m not sure that I trust that source.' We found that the majority of them were getting their information from their pharmacist.