I had been on that bus for 8 hours already, and a couple of hours after Albuquerque the gentleman sitting beside me asked me where I was from and what brought me to America. Once the conversation continued past the pleasantries, I quickly learnt that he was on his way back home to southern Texas after burying his father who had just died of cancer. I expressed my condolences. "Obama killed him you know" he suddenly said. I was genuinely surprised, "What ?" "Obamacare. Death panels of doctors that decide who gets treated and who does not." Bitterness crept into his voice. "They treated him like trash." Obamacare had just been passed, it was the summer of 2010, and most likely, nothing had actually changed in the hospital systems of middle america. Still, I was not going to argue with a man who had just buried his father. There was silence between us for a while. "What do you do down in Texas ?" "I teach math at high school....