Bless their hearts, they're going to keep on trying with this Obamacare repeal thing. That's their
latest ad, running in Louisiana against Sen. Mary Landrieu. And it's, well, problematic, as usual.
The conservative outside group Americans for Prosperity has a new attack ad out hitting Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) that features veterans asking if the federal government can't efficiently "run healthcare for 8 million veterans" then how can Obamacare work for the whole country? […]
"All we asked was to be cared for if we needed it," Keith B., one of the veterans featured in the video, said.
Another veteran, identified as Air Force Veteran Murphy J., near the end of the ad said "tell Mary Landrieu fix healthcare for veterans before forcing Obamacare on the rest of the country."
Let's start with the obvious. The similarity between the VA health system and Obamacare stops after the part where they both have doctors and nurses and prescription drugs and buildings. The VA is providing health care to veterans. Obamacare is providing health insurance so people can afford to go to the same doctors and nurses and buildings that were there before the law. No change, except more people get to do that going-to-the-doctor thing. There's also the part about the VA isn't going to be running any part of Obamacare, at all.
Instead, let's talk about the fact that the Kochs and their Republican lackeys have managed to deny any kind of health care to more than 250,000 veterans who aren't getting health care at all because their states' Republican leaders refused Medicaid expansion. You want scandal? You want a travesty? Start with that.