Interesting N&R letter to the editor from High Point’s Max Roseman, in its entirety:

Who opposes “Obamacare”? Who poured tens of millions into a malicious campaign to vilify “Obamacare”? Who unleashed hordes of lobbyists to kill this bill?

Relentless anti-Obama zealots, that’s who. All that money bought negative propaganda, which turned a majority of Americans against health care reform. Lies became truths, rumors became facts (death panels and rationing of health care).

A majority of Americans will not be affected by “Obamacare.” Such as, employer-provided health care, individually purchased insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. All status quo. The millions who are without coverage will ultimately be insured.

These loud, brainwashed protesters have nothing to fear from “Obamacare.” The negative assault leads to wild extrapolation of the facts: Government forcing us to buy broccoli, or some other nonsense.

Follow the money. Who is susceptible to financial loss? Insurance companies (that contribute nothing to your well-being) and price-gouging pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. These are powerful entities that threw their substantial weight around.

They may have won the first skirmish in the politicized Supreme Court. Hopefully, we the people will exert our own power to make this compassionate legislation a reality.

I’ll assume Mr. Roseman knows the ‘nonsense’ about the government forcing us to buy broccoli was raised by none other than a Supreme Court justice during the Obamacare hearings. An absurd hypothetical, perhaps, yet a necessary one to graphically illustrate how government requiring an individual to purchase a product “changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way.”

Which I guess us full circle. You can put broccoli in a food desert, but you can’t make the locals eat it. At least not yet.