Last night the U.S. Senate voted to repeal so-called Obamacare – no, don’t tune out. We know Republicans have done that dozens of times, but this time is different, or so they say. This ‘repeal’ is expected to make it to President Obama’s desk, and, as Matt Laslo reports from Washington, Wyoming’s two senators both played a key role in the effort. You may or may not be aware, but one of Wyoming’s senators is a doctor. John Barrasso hates Obamacare so much he started hosting a YouTube show solely focused on derailing the president’s signature health care bill. Barrasso and his former co-host – Doctor and former Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn – were unashamed about what the show was intended to do: They want to kill Obamacare. The show never took off. It got more than two thousand views on the first episode, but the clunky production turned people off and soon they were just getting hundreds of views. Barrasso has also taken his anti-Obamacare rhetoric from the lo-fi world of the internet
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