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Letter: Isn’t Obamacare supposed to cover this?

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I recently read that the Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic is launching a $2.5 million capital campaign to buy and set up a new facility. Here I must admit some confusion.

Three years ago, a Democrat-controlled House, Senate and Presidency passed the most comprehensive, universal and (most importantly) affordable health care system known to man. And the Supreme Court, led by liberal Chief Justice John Roberts, ruled the entire system, including fines … oops, scratch that … taxes, is Constitutional.

The recent reelection of Obama indicates that at least half the population of this country is in favor of this new, improved government-run health care system that covers everybody and is euphemistically known as Obamacare. The bill establishing this system is over 2,000 pages long. Here I must admit that like many, including some in Congress, I have not read the bill; but have heard and read plenty about it since it was proposed and passed. It cov...

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