The Uninsured Are Turning Against Obamacare. That's A Problem

[JDPriestly]

14. The flaw is in the fact that too much time lapsed between the passage of the law and the

implementation of the program for the poor.

Also there is a big problem because many governors sabotaged the law by not increasing the funding and scope of their Medicaid program.s

But yes. The Obama administration's communication with the public is its weakest link. It has an abysmal record of telling its story to the people who need to hear it.

The Obama administration spends too much time and money on domestic surveillance and policing, collecting records of the minutiae of the lives of ordinary Americans -- on the NSA program and on equipping our local police with quasi-military or straightforward military equipment than on communicating with us as real people.

Also, the consolidation of the media which got a big boost during the Clinton administration means that the Republicans, the right-wing can control a lot of the information that we get. Remember, lots of people in our country do not have the internet. And it looks like Obama's appointment to the FCC, while giving lip service to net neutrality is unlikely to take the steps necessary to protect it.

I find this news extremely depressing and distress

The NSA program needs to go. There is no will so far in the Obama administration to put it under the control of the people, no will to allow it to be transparent enough to make it compatible with our Constitution and with our system of democratic and representative government. The very existence of this program places too much power in the military and executive branch. That it exists gives rise to the question whether we have already had a silent coup, a silent military, intelligence coup.

What do net neutrality and the NSA surveillance have to do with enrollment in the ACA? The end of net neutrality will make it even more difficult for the people to learn the truth about anything. And NSA surveillance gives our government so much power over us that our government thinks it already knows where we are an who we are and it does not need to spend so much time and effort on winning us over. If people are unhappy, just cut their unemployment checks and their food stamps and then, when they show their anger, meet them with tanks and armored police officers. That's the message here. Like it or not, that is where this could end.

The lack of enthusiasm about enrolling in Obamacare is rather understandable considering the perception of heavy-handed government that has been common since the Reagan era.