Koch Brothers Puppet Group "Bribing" College Kids Not To Enroll in #Obamacare

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Koch Brothers Puppet Group "Bribing" College Kids Not To Enroll in #Obamacare

Posted by Paddy at the Political Carnival

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/10/15/koch-brothers-puppet-group-bribing-college-kids-enroll-obamacare/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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I would think that the laws on bribing people for their votes could edge into this territory. Thankfully most college age students aren't that dumb, they'll drink the free beer, get their gifties and move right along. Anyone else ever wonder what great things the Koch brothers could do if they used all this money for GOOD? Also too, their website is really lame.


WASHINGTON -- As the battle over the healthcare law grinds on — Republicans no closer to victory than when they forced the government shutdown — a different fight was rising on a recent Saturday from inside Sharkey’s, a bar near the campus of Virginia Tech, 260 miles away.

Lured by free beer, gift cards and the chance to win an iPad, 100 students heard a pitch from the young staffers of a group named Generation Opportunity: Obamacare is a bad deal, and you should opt out.

With enrollment in the insurance marketplaces under way, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on a public-awareness campaign, critics are aiming a provocative counter-effort at a critical population: millennials, age 18 to 29, who may not feel the need or have the money for insurance.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Trying to talk young people out of buying cheap health insurance is just fucking evil

because young people can get badly injured or seriously ill, just like everybody else. Statistically, they are less likely to get cancer or heart disease than older people, but they can and do get other very bad things - meningitis, Lyme disease, mono, for example - and they are more likely to have car accidents. So how evil is it to talk those kids into going without health insurance and then they need it and will be either in debt for the rest of their lives (along with their student loans) or have to file bankruptcy? How fucking evil is that?

[applegrove]

5. In part evil because they want to destroy the ACA model. They want to crack

its back. They want to go back to a situation where people die and go bankrupt in the hundreds of thousands.

[Blue Owl]

2. Why instead, you could get sick and die!

What a fucking great alternative.

[Initech]

3. The Koch brothers are sick, demented terrorists.

They've done more damage to our country than Osama Bin Laden could ever dream of!

[kentauros]

7. "Trading Places" may have been a funny and fictional story,

but the Koch brothers are the Duke brothers are the Koch brothers. We need to lay a margin call on their asses

[global1]

4. They Should Take The Bribe Money And Use It To Buy Health Insurance......

Let the Koch's pay for their insurance.

[Eric J in MN]

6. If they're in an accident and have huge medical bills...

...and no insurance, the Koch brothers won't help.