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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:16 PM Oct 2013

Koch Brothers Bribe College Students With Beer To Get Them To Ignore Obamacare

A conservative group called Generation Opportunity, funded by the Koch Brothers, thinks if they can ply college kids with beer they can convince them not to sign up for Obamcare. Good old conservative values in action.

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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Generation Opportunity, which formed in 2011 and gets funding in part from the conservative Koch brothers, is about to embark on a tour of 20 college towns nationally, including a Nov.?9 stop at the University of Miami. The pitch is that you shouldn’t feel compelled by the government to buy insurance, and that it may be cheaper outside the marketplaces.

The rest: http://www.alan.com/2013/10/17/koch-brothers-bribe-college-students-with-beer-to-get-them-to-ignore-obamacare/

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Koch Brothers Bribe College Students With Beer To Get Them To Ignore Obamacare (Original Post) JaneyVee Oct 2013 OP
Somebody really oughtta put some time Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #1
The Evil Empire uses the force, The Koch Brothers use beer. Rex Oct 2013 #2
Well that's stupid. HooptieWagon Oct 2013 #3
'So Long, Dental Plan!' I saw that episode of 'The Simpsons.' onehandle Oct 2013 #4
Once again art imitates life! Initech Oct 2013 #6
Let the Koch Brothers furnish the beer for college kids, the ones who remain on their Thinkingabout Oct 2013 #5
I bet it was really shitty beer Blue Owl Oct 2013 #7

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. Somebody really oughtta put some time
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:23 PM
Oct 2013

into keeping tracj of everything these assholes are doing to the former Republic known as the USA.

There'd be a couple of good books in it.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. The Evil Empire uses the force, The Koch Brothers use beer.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:27 PM
Oct 2013

Generation Opportunity aptly describes a bunch of capitalistic vultures willing to sell their mother for a wooden nickle. Might as well be the Borg.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
3. Well that's stupid.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:29 PM
Oct 2013

I believe kids up to age 26 are covered under their parent's policies, which includes most college students. Also, colleges (at least in FL) offer really cheap healthcare plans for fulltime students. So the Kochs are basically providing free beer for nothing. Go college kids!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. Let the Koch Brothers furnish the beer for college kids, the ones who remain on their
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:38 PM
Oct 2013

Parents medical insurance due to Obamacare, smart huh.

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