The Koch brothers' beer offensive against Obamacare loses its fizz

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

Sadhbh Walshe
theguardian.com, Thursday 17 October 2013 08.30 EDT


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.