Senator pressing HHS for answers on ObamaCare ad spending

Fox News reports:

A Senate committee is looking into the millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on ads to promote ObamaCare enrollment.

FoxNews.com has confirmed the Health and Human Services budget for “paid media” is about $35 million for the current enrollment period – focusing on the 38 states using HealthCare.gov.

But Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, raised concerns that agency ad spending is becoming a “black box” that is difficult to track. Citing a study that also showed the total federal government budget for ads and PR was nearly $1 billion in fiscal 2013, Hatch recently fired off a letter to the acting head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asking for a full accounting of agency ad spending.

Remember, when progressives used to tell us advertising by insurance companies is a waste of money? When the government does it, progressives have no problem.