Here's the problem with your logic, Ma. Taking care of others is taking care of you and yours. The truth is, the cost of your healthcare is directly affected by not taking care of those "others." The ACA (and Romney care before it) helped slow the rise of healthcare/insurance costs for everyone, including you. The truth is, we are all in this together.

Why was there an ACA? Because the cost of health care throughout the United States was rising nearly exponentially, and a major reason is because so many people did not have insurance, were not getting preventive care, and our health provision services were/are being overwhelmed. It is a national crisis. Frankly, that's why we have a United States, to deal with issues that are of national scope. Individual States cannot handle it on their own. (Large States, like Massachusetts, can, but that leaves out more than half the US, and nearly all Republicans.) And this crisis is not over.

I believe there are better solutions than the ACA, but it was a good start, and helped identify why, where and how the problems can be addressed. I agree that Congress is an unwieldy body, but it is the system we have. It can get big things done when properly led - social security, national security, the interstate highway system, NASA - are all demonstrations of that. The problem is patently obvious, though. The Republican party is not the solution to the problem, it is the problem. It stands in the way of every rational solution to nearly every national problem.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich