In the South, Voting Against Our Own Self Interests

      I can't figure out for the life of me how working class people in the south, and especially in Louisiana, think! I just watched on a political ad how a candidate used the fact that he is against Obamacare as a reason why we should vote for him. To my way of thinking that would be the biggest why I would NOT vote for him. If you are a person who has children that are teenagers and young adults, it's like voting for them not to have insurance because, let's face it, they won't be able to afford any on their own, for some years. But if you could keep them on your insurance coverage it would help you and them immensely. The prescription drug doughnut hole, which has hurt so many who depend on their prescriptions, has been almost closed.  Chances are that if you have health insurance the cost of your premium keeps escalating and the value of your care is becoming shoddier and shoddier. Obamacare mandates that insurance companies MUST spend 85% of insurance dollars on care and no more than 15% on overhead. In other words, no more multi-million dollar salaried CEOs while people are perishing from poor care or lack of any care at all.The doughnut hole was given to us courtesy of the fully republican controlled congress on behalf of the pharmaceutical corporations. And let us not forget the fact that insurance companies are now prohibited from refusing insurance to you because of prior conditions and illnesses. And there are many other good things about the ACA that people are ignorant of, but haven't tried to find what they are.They just listen to people who use their ignorance against them, knowing they are uninformed and will never take the time to inform themselves. This is the same tactic southern politicians have been using since the days of the civil rights era and it's still working today. They play on fear and ignorance! Why is it that working class people don't think healthcare should be a right for every American? We are the most prosperous country on the earth, yet we are the only industrialized nation that doesn't have free healthcare for it's citizens. We listen to people who proclaim how wonderful our health care system is, but see so many dying from preventable bisease because we won't practice preventive medicine.   
       Obamacare provides for free prenatal care, mammograms, cancer screenings and pap smears,. These things are hugely important to women but to vote against the ACA is voting to deny them these things. Those who are against Obamacare use the issue of abortion to trick you into voting against your own interests. Take the case of Planned Parenthood. They have brainwashed you into thinking that abortions is the main business of this organization. If that is your impression, someone has given you a false impression. Planned Parenthood provides all of the aforementioned services. Yes, I believe they do provide a certain amount of abortions (which I definitely don't approve of). But the question is "does the fact that they do perform this procedure overrule all of the good works they do"? In my opinion, IT DOES NOT! It's a woman's choice, however tragic, to make if she wants to do such a horrible thing. They should provided with counseling, pro and con, but in the end they are the ones who have to live with and answer for it.
       So I can't why Obamacare is something to be hated rather than to be desired.I don't believe it is just because Obamais black because we were also duped into thinkig the same thing when Bill Clinton was president. It was Mrs. Clinton's intitiative and the corporations vilified and demonized for the rest of her husband's presidency. If we don't believe that we should have universal healthcare, something is wrong with us.