Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Congratulations Obamacare!



Today you're a term for a healthcare plan that most people don't seem to understand and people seem to really dislike.

"THANKS OBAMACARE!" a man will shout at you from his computer as he fails to log into the healthcare exchange of a state that refused to allocate resources to the production of its website.

"I know, right?  WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!" a man next to him will shout at the ceiling.

"FOX NEWS!" a third woman will shout.

You'll insubstantially float about, wondering just what the shit is going on while people lambast you.  For the most part, you'll just feel hellishly confused, but every once in a while someone somewhere will actually use your name in some sort of relevant context to your existence, and in these brief moments, your awareness, your consistency as a concept, will flare.

"I guess Obamacare isn't terrible once you actually get through the initial hassle," a young woman in Kentucky will announce to her computer.

"I guess I don't have to deal with Obamacare at all," a young man in Alaska will announce to his screen after learning that his receipt of health insurance through his employer disqualifies him from receiving care under the Affordable Care Act.

"Obamacare done taught me that maybe all black folk ain't so bad," an oddly progressive minded young man from Houston will announce to his computer after learning that his girlfriend's lupus will no longer disqualify her from coverage under his health insurance plan.

These statements will occupy the minority of your awareness or existence or whatever it is that you have as an insubstantial term that sort of just exists in the aether of the world, but they will serve as concretions of a sort, fixing agents that will allow you to understand the texture of your own existence.  This mix of vitriol and passive acceptance, this notion that people hate you until they get to know you a little, will be odd, but it will be an existence of a sort, and since existence is the only thing you're insubstantially aware of, it'll be a good thing, more or less.

Enjoy the new year, you strange, miunderstood, insubstantial term you.

Congratulations Obamacare!

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