Getting Obamacare, Or Trying To

YESTERDAY I MADE A PHONE CALL, and applied for Obamacare. They said at first that I would be on hold, waiting, for twenty minutes, and it turned out to be forty. No problem; one must be tolerant of small inefficiencies in a new program. All big new programs stumble at first; Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid all stumbled at first, then turned out to be shining examples of the effectiveness of socialism. After a long interview, they told me that within a few weeks, I would be notified, one way or the other, whether I had been accepted. Until that moment, I really didn't know that an Obamacare applicant could either be accepted or rejected. Hell, I just figured that anyone who applied would at least be offered a plan, automatically, and would be free to accept or reject it. Shows what I know. So, I'll wait and see, and hope to be accepted into the great socialistic train wreck that is the Affordable Care Act. At least, I've been told, time and again, by conservatives, that Obamacare is a complete train wreck, a hopeless failure, which is running up health insurance costs for everyone, ruining the American health care system, which used to be the very best in the world, and in general ruining the United States of America. According to conservatives, Obama has already destroyed America, and the only solution is to elect a right winger in sixteen, and start over. Like, Trump? Yeah, I am soooo sure.. For actual evidence of all this calamity they offer nothing, unsurprisingly. The very moment I see even a trace of evidence for Obama's having destroyed America, I'll start paying more attention, and open my mind to the possibility that American conservatives are something other than unhinged. Don't hold your breath. The lady asked me an infinite number of questions, including, my income. She seemed utterly aghast when I told her, truthfully, that I had none. Thank God for retirement savings! But its good to know that there is somebody who is aghast at the thought of somebody having no income. There are millions of folks, worldwide, who have little or none, and we need to all be aghast. Meanwhile, I await the word on my Obamacare, hoping.