Koch Brothers' New Obamacare Attack: An Arkansas Trucker Is Confused

[hue]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/arkansas-senate-koch-brothers_n_5070330.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Jerry's ObamaCare Story by Americans For Prosperity

After 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."

[louis-t]

1. That is the dumbest ad I've ever seen.

"It's confusing so I'm confused about not knowing whether to be confused or not!1!!1!!"

JEEZ!

[DesertDiamond]

2. Obama isn't doing anything to help us with this. Is he going to do anything in 4 years? Or 2 years?"

Um, dunno. He won't be president anymore by then.

[louis-t]

4. Arkansas has their own exchange.

He should be calling his repug governor's office for help. Oh, wait.....

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. ...

[louis-t]

5. Ackshully....

that's his wife. Honest.

[daybranch]

6. You are telling me that everyone in the household has to have a commercial

And what is this bull that driving a truck is a lot like farming. Could they not find a farmer to lie for them? Boy, the Koch brothers and/or Karl Rove sure must be having a hard time finding real people, if these are even real and not actors. Obama care is confusing, hell my Government supported Blue Cross and Blue Shield is confusing but a lot less so since Obamacare came in.
While I am not on it, I think the Medicaid expansion may turn out to be the most important part of Obamacare for the country. It makes me proud that the Democrats implemented a program which helps the poor and the working man.

[louis-t]

13. I signed up for Obamacare, it wasn't confusing at all.

Took me about 25 minutes to choose a plan and sign up for it online. I got a letter in the mail and sent a check. Done. The hardest thing about it was cancelling my BCBS plan. They tried to force me into a more expensive plan. I had to call on the phone to cancel. They wouldn't let me do it online. I called at least 4 times and a recording told me wait times were over an hour and then I was hung up on. I finally got it cancelled but BCBS was still billing me. I just ignored them and finally they went away.

[cynzke]

7. Awesome.....

Lets show that the people we choose are ignorant about insurance....PERIOD.

Worked for an insurance company for eleven years. Customers expect to be spoon fed info, rather that look for it in the policy booklets. Yes, its tedious to have to open a booklet and READ.

[KrazyinKS]

8. That's actually a good point-

Can these people read? Or are they just too lazy to do any research, they just let the AFP spoon feed them info?

[maddiemom]

11. They must read.

The word "angst" is a normal part of his vocabulary.

[Grins]

10. Disagree

They need to be "spoon fed" because those information booklets - all written by lawyers - are so damned difficult to find anything!

Right now I have three new coverages; my dental plan "information" booklet is 58 pages long, the drug plan is 47 pages (plus attachments), and my medical plan is so long it takes up several pages on its website; all of them filled with preferred this or that or not, in network, out of network, per-approved, exclusions, generics, non-generics, etc., etc. All those packets are written by lawyers to protect the insurer's butt, while I just want quick information to cover mine!

Years ago there was an effort by companies across the board to make the fine print more readable. Looks like that has passed us by.

That said - at the least - the guy in the ad should know the most basic issue - Do I have insurance?

[They_Live]

9. Comedy Gold.

Are these people just now starting to ask questions? Were they happy with soaring premiums rates and limited coverage prior to any reform? Insurance rates have always been climbing and out of our control. Hopefully this will begin to change.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

14. Is this the latest from the guys that did spinal tap?

If so bravo!!!

[Plucketeer]

12. Wonder how much ol' Jerry and his wife got paid

to make these lie-mercials? I lived in Little Rock for a few months. Most of the folks there didn't seem this gullible to me!

[LynneSin]

15. Or maybe he was just too dumb to spend 30 minutes to figure it out himself

That's the message I got from this ad.

They found some actor to sound like a red-state no-nothing whose all 'I'm so confused no one is telling me anything'.

Why are the Koch brothers spending billions of dollars to fight this. That seems like a waste of their money.

[sherihah]

16. I'm a trucker, thinking is hard!

[arcane1]

17. Kicking to watch later!