Oregon’s epic #obamacare agitprop #fail.

Let us discuss precisely how badly the Oregon state government has messed up its ad campaign trying to get young people to sign up for Obamacare. First, the background:

Cover Oregon, the public agency set up to implement Oregon’s health exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, launched the first, $3.2 million ad campaign last week for the program.

Rocky King, Executive Director of Cover Oregon, told the Oregonian, the goal of the jingly, somewhat hipster-vibe ads that offers lyrics stating “live long in Oregon” and “long live the Oregon spirit,” is to just break people into the program that opens in October.

But there’s a problem, which will be graphically demonstrated  by watching the aforementioned ad below.  Don’t worry, I’ve turned it into an anti-Obamacare ad of equal, if not superior, value:

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