Timothy Egan, in the NY Times, calls out the South for their stupidity concerning Obamacare. He compares Obama's and Lincoln's "lies" in what they promised vs. what they delivered.
The South's New Lost Cause
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists,” he said, reaching out to the breakaway South. “I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
"You can keep your present plan."
Both Lincoln and Obama did what they needed to do to eventually improve the lives of millions of people.
As inapt as those comparisons are, what is distressingly similar today is how the South is once again committed to taking a backward path. By refusing to expand health care for the working poor through Medicaid, which is paid for by the federal government under Obamacare, most of the old Confederacy is committed to keeping millions of its own fellow citizens in poverty and poor health. They are dooming themselves, further, as the Left-Behind States.