The Deeply Disturbing Ways the Kochs Are Trying to Convince Us We Don't Want Better Healthcare

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http://www.alternet.org/media/trying-convince-americans-they-shouldnt-want-better-health-care-creepiness-only-kochs-could

“You’re not going to let Uncle Sam put his finger up your butt, are you, dude?”

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In case you haven’t seen the rollout of the Koch brothers’ latest disinformation campaign: Two Creepy Uncle Sam ads are now running on TV, “The Glove” and “The Exam.” “The Glove” targets young men. A twenty-something guy is in an exam room. The doctor tells him to take his pants off, lie on his side and bend his knees to his chest. It looks like he’s going to get a prostate exam. But his doctor leaves, and out of nowhere Uncle Sam pops up by the young guy’s behind and pulls on a latex glove. The patient is freaked. I’m freaked. Every man watching, except for the odd alien abduction fetishist, is involuntarily freaked.

“Don’t let government play doctor,” the ad ends. “Opt out of Obamacare.”

The message of “The Glove”: You’re young. Don’t sign up for a health care exchange. Screw the individual mandate. You’re a free man. Act like it.

In “The Exam,” it’s a young woman in an exam room. She’s wearing a hospital gown; her feet are in stirrups, the posture of maximum vulnerability. But when her gynecologist steps out, Creepy Uncle Sam rises between her legs. In his hand, a speculum, which he clenches scarily. If you don’t want the government invading your most private place, Millennial women, you’d better opt out of Obamacare.