I have questions. For instance, are Charles and David Koch aliens from the planet Fnerzblax 6, come here to feast on the entrails of Earth humans to give them strength for their coming war with the barbarians of Fnerzblax 4? We don't know, and that's what has me so concerned.
I ask because Americans for Prosperity, the group through which the Kochs channel much of their political activism, is initiating a new television campaign to get people afraid of and angry about Obamacare, and this seems to be the method of the campaign. The first ad, called "Questions," asks whether Obamacare is going to take money from a worried-looking young mother and deprive her sick child of the care he needs to survive. Not that it would truly do these things, but hey, she's just asking:
Beyond the just-asking format, there's a preview here of something else we'll be seeing as Obamacare gets implemented over the next couple of years. Every problem that anyone has with anything related to health care will be characterized as a consequence of Obamacare, which in some tortured sense might be almost true. The ad mentions not being able to choose your doctor, which would be bad. If you chose an insurance plan in an exchange established by Obamacare, that plan will probably have a network of doctors from which you have to choose if you want your care paid for, and if your doctor isn't on it, then you've been prevented from choosing your own doctor.
Of course, that isn't because of Obamacare, it's because of the way insurance works in America; it's how it worked before Obamacare, and it's how it'll work after Obamacare. But it's a lot simpler to say, "Now that we're under Obamacare, I didn't get to choose my doctor!" And did you know that under Obamacare, medications could come with dangerous side effects? Or that under Obamacare, kids who get shots will cry? Not only that, under Obamacare, you could get cancer and die-even if your doctor wanted to save you. In fact, under Obamacare, we're all going to die one day. Thanks for all the misery, pain, and death, Obama.
