ABSTRACT
The splinter personalities that come to embody the conflicts of a culture start to look and feel in the media as if they are actual personalities in their own right. Obamacare has become just such a character and player in the American political psyche. The issue of how best to deliver healthcare has been on the national agenda in one form or another for almost 100 years. The problem of healthcare delivery has become exponentially more difficult to address because it has been hijacked and polluted by the potent affects and ideologies of the cultural unconscious in the form of a cultural complex. As in the painting by Chester Arnold, the Obamacare complex draws to itself every bit of flotsam and jetsam in the American psyche, preventing anything but the most primitive ideation and affect, dividing the country into Us vs Them polarities across which no bridges can be built.
