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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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