What Could Go Wrong?

Only tea party nut jobs question Obamacare. Obama would never have people feel us up at airports or look at us naked. That's just a bad dream. He would never put his enemies on the no fly list, or confiscate their computers and phones when they travel. He would never put more whistleblowers in jail than George W. Bush. Obama would never train local police to brutalize their own citizens as if they were an invading army under the guise of "anti-terrorism." He would never deploy drones to kill accused terrorists without trial, killing innocent bystanders in the process. The police in Atlantic City did not just brutally beat a man for talking back to them and sic a dog on him. The police in Oakland did not previously crack the skull of an injured Veteran who was peacefully protesting. There is not an upsurge of police violence by enraged officers who think we have to obey their "orders" instead of enforcing laws. There was not just three videos in the news of police brutalizing or stripping three different women in traffic stops. That didn't happen. The police don't behave that way. We are not sliding into an Orwellian police state. The government is not shut down right now. We don't need to raise the debt ceiling for the eighth time. We have plenty of money to pay for Obamacare. We will raise more money by tapping uninsured young people. They have lots of extra money. The NSA is not tapping our phones and computers. They won't misuse our confidential medical records which Obamacare demands be computerized. The NSA did not put in a back door to get at your medical records just like they didn't do that with your computer and phone records. Just because welfare and Medicaid were grossly underfunded and cutting children off a few years ago is no reason to think Obamacare will be an underfunded nightmare. County hospitals and the VA are other examples of government funded health care that are never nightmares and always properly funded. This post in not being written by a former Medicaid consumer who knows what she's talking about.