Koch Brothers' New Obamacare Attack: An Arkansas Trucker Is Confused
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/arkansas-senate-koch-brothers_n_5070330.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592After a number of ads run by the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity have been hammered for making false charges against Obamacare, the outfit has a new spot in Arkansas that offers a less-daring claim: A truck driver is confused about his insurance.
"It's like living in a haze," says Jerry Buckley in the ad, which AFP will spend $540,000 to run. "You don't know whether you're going to have insurance or whether you're going to be able to afford your insurance. It was taken away from us. Or it was given back to us," says Buckley, adding in apparent frustration, "We don't know what it's been now."
As Buckley notes, the Arkansas state insurance commissioner has announced that old plans like his that are not Obamacare-compliant can continue to be offered until 2017. So while Buckley says he hasn't received any letters from his insurer since one in October 2013 warned that his plan would be canceled, he might clear up his own confusion with a call to the company.
The Huffington Post wrote about the extension after Jerry's wife, Wanda Buckley, did a similar ad for AFP that was found to be misleading. In fact, while it is likely true that many people are still confused about the Affordable Care Act, Jerry Buckley has been engaged in trying to sort it out at least since October, when he took the trouble to post about his insurance woes on the campaign website of Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who is running against Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) this year.
The AFP ad is clearly targeting Pryor's reelection: It ends by urging viewers to tell the senator that Obamacare "hurts Arkansas families."
MADem
(135,425 posts)Take that guy off the road, for the safety of other drivers!!!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)what amounts to a loud pronouncement, "I'm too stupid to figure it out"?
This is not a slam on those that have/had difficulty navigating the enrollment; but how many people are willing to admit it?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Sure, it's not uncommon for people to have difficulty, that's the case with any new system, be it the ACA or a VCR back in the eighties--but I think even the thickest person could "get it" if they had since October to devote themselves to solving what confused them!
I gotta at "I'm too stupid to figure it out." Right on the money!!!
1StrongBlackMan
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Well there was that telephone number and any number of people and whole agencies set up for the specific purpose of explaining it to you.
Come on, mannn!
When's the Daily Show or Colbert gonna riff on this ... it'll be a blast.
But then, I imagine the conversation at Momma's House wil go something like this:
Momma: Jr., tell me you didn't just go on national TV to tell everyone that I raised an idiot!
Jr.: But Ma ... they cut off my unemployment and my food stamps!
Momma: Okay!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)that would be a very rare being