Claim: Arizonans will have more "control" over their health care market if they set up a state exchange than if they allow a federal exchange to be set up.
Americans for Prosperity exposes the desperate spin job by the Obama for America group here:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/050412-wasteful-spending-spin-vs-fact
OFA has been scrambling to respond to AFP's nationally-televised "Wasteful Spending" ad, even with help from a badly botched bit of "fact checking" by the Washington Post. Watch the AFP ad here:
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Unless the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the entire structure of ObamaCare (not just the individual mandate), we will have to fight to keep the Brewer Administration from setting up an Arizona ObamaCare insurance exchange. Read more about the exchange fight here:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/050312-fraudulent-claims-about-arizona-obamacare-exchange
And here:
To all Arizona Taxpayers and Health Care Consumers:
Many Arizona taxpayers and health care consumers do not know that right now Governor Jan Brewer is spending $30 million in federal funds (i.e., your federal tax dollars) to set up an ObamaCare health insurance exchange in Arizona. The exchange is a new bureaucracy that will soon require tens of millions of dollars annually in new surcharges, fees and/or taxes on Arizona families and businesses.
(AFP national news release)
ARLINGTON, VA – Immediately following AFP’s launch of a new TV ad exposing how President Obama used billions of taxpayer dollars to fund “green energy” projects and companies overseas, President Obama is once again directly attacking AFP.
“Once again, President Obama is lashing out with distorted, personal attacks instead of taking responsibility for his failed big government green energy boondoggles that have wasted billions of taxpayer dollars in pursuit of his global warming ideology," said Tim Phillips, President of Americans for Prosperity. “The simple truth is, American tax dollars should be benefiting American taxpayers, not foreign workers or politically connected companies and special interests.
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