My mother turned 95 yesterday.  She is in a nursing home and she is dying.  Six months ago she had a series of injuries and illness that  took their toll and she wound up in the hospital.  Her insurance policy said that it covered unlimited skilled nursing care, so when the doctors told me that she would have to go to a nursing home, I figured she was covered.  I was wrong.  It turns out that, while she needs nursing care, she does not need skilled nursing care.  I had no idea that "unskilled" nursing care existed, but it does.  Leave it to insurance companies to find a loophole, but then, that's how they make a living; cutting costs and increasing profits.  That's business - and they view my mother as a profit/loss statement, nothing more. 

Without adequate insurance and with limited resources, my mother's care is now paid for by Medicaid.  I heard all the horror stories about "government run health care" and how "Obamacare" would mean that a "Death Panel" would now decide what sort of care, if any, my mother would receive.  No longer would I or my mother be allowed to speak with her doctors to get the medical care she needed.  Such decisions would now be made by "the government" and death panels. 

It's been several months now since Mom has been in the nursing home, and yet, there have been no sign of any death panel, no government bureaucrats sitting in the meetings we have with Mom's doctors, and her level of care has been nothing short of wonderful.

My father-in-law is going to be 90 years old next month.  He is a veteran of WWII.  Like my mother, my father-in-law's medical care is being paid for and authorized by "the government", only in his case, it's the Veterans Administration and not Medicaid.  Nonetheless, I was concerned to hear that his pacemaker would need a new battery and other measures that would require surgery.  I wondered how the Death Panels would decide if it was worth it to invest a lot of time and money into a 90 year old man with a pacemaker.  Again, my fears of "government run health care - Obamacare" made me worry about the welfare and treatment of my father-in-law. Contrary to what I expected, my father-in-law has been approved for the battery, the surgery, and anything else his dear heart needs. 

No death panels, no substandard level of care, no bureaucratic red tape, none of the fears that Republicans and their Tea Party pals tell me will happen because of "Obamacare". 
I've since stopped listening to the scare tactics and I've centered on the truth; and the truth is that my mother and my father-in-law are being very well cared for by a government managed health care system -as are a majority of people in most western industrialized nations.  Reject the fear and learn the truth.