Not A Surprise: Scott Walker Touts The Koch Agenda In New Health Care Plan

August 18, 2015

As Scott Walker continues to take pages from the playbooks of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump to save his plummeting campaign, today he’s reminding the Koch brothers that he’s still relevant by trumpeting their health care agenda in Minnesota.

Other than growing their own bank accounts, repealing Obamacare has been priority #1 for the Kochs. Over the past few years, they’ve put their money where their mouth is, spending millions to upend the Affordable Care Act, bankrolling legal challenges to the ACA, and using scare tactics to spread lies about health care reform.

Even as the uninsured rate falls below 10% — the lowest in 40 years — the Kochs show no signs of ending their high-dollar crusade to deny Americans health care.

And in Walker’s latest attempt to court a slice of the $900 million the Kochs plan to spend propping up Republican candidates, today he attacked Mitch McConnell and other Washington Republicans for failing to follow Koch orders by voting to repeal Obamacare — an effort that’s failed in Congress more than 50 times.

Walker has a long history of outflanking the GOP to curry favor with the Kochs: After AFP spent millions to elect him governor, he went right to work advancing their agenda by cutting education, blocking a minimum wage increase, pushing so-called right-to-work, and more. Then the Kochs rewarded him by spending millions to promote his — and the Kochs’ — agenda during his reelection campaign.

There’s no better example of a candidate that’s bought-and-paid-for by the Kochs than Scott Walker. But while his campaign flounders, Walker’s rollout of his health care plan today is nothing more than another example of him jumping on any opportunity to tout the Koch agenda.

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