You Might Think Plying College Students With Beer Would Work, The Koch Brothers Did

The Koch brothers are assholes who don’t care about anything but power and money!

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From Sadhbh Walshe, THE GUARDIAN

A Koch-funded front is using free beer to entice students away from health exchanges. But Obamacare is made of stronger stuff

What’s a family values conservative to do when every effort to protect millions of Americans from the scourge of affordable healthcare fails?

Break out the beer, of course. The latest campaign to kill off Obamacare in its infancy is now playing out on college campuses where a conservative group known as Generation Opportunity (GO), who are funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, is using the lure of free beer and “opt out” beer koozies to persuade young students not to buy health insurance – or, at least, not to buy it from the Obamacare exchanges.

Traditionally, one might expect God-fearing conservatives to be warning youth about the dangers of alcohol consumption, rather than plying them with free liquor, but these are desperate…

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