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Mossy Robot's avatar

I hope you're right, but I'm extremely doubtful. Look at all the folks who get their health care through ACA subsidies, branded with their state's exchange, who nonetheless vehemently hate Obamacare. There's a long history of whites feeling that they deserve government benefits but that blacks do not.

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Midge's avatar

Right. Throughout US history, much of this has been enabled by blacks and whites typically getting different benefits, so that whites could tell themselves *their* benefits weren't really benefits, "properly understood". This is obviously harder to do with a widespread benefit applying to races equally, but in the Kraken world we live in, clearly not impossible.

I do cut Americans railing against our system of medical care payment, Obamacare or not, some slack. The stuff that makes American medical payment so crazy, like laws favoring employer-based plans, is also stuff that middle-class Americans are used to by now, and, as the saying goes, always keep ahold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse. People want a scapegoat for how much this sucks, even now, so of course if they lean that way, "Obamacare!" is tempting.

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