So let me see if I've got this straight...

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237. There are million of people, 5 million in fact . . .

who have signed up and are benefiting from the ACA.

You can get mad and deny it all you want but the ACA is a law now and is helping people who weren't able to afford health insurance before.

Of course it's not perfect. Pls consider re-directing your anger into energy for the 2014 campaign and work to get candidates elected who will help to take health insurance reform to the next level.

Remember, presidents since Roosevelt — Teddy, not just FDR — have tried to get health care reform passed. Obama got passed what all those other presidents couldn't. And he got passed through the repugs and their allies the bluedog democrats what would pass. You have to know that single payer was not getting through the repugs and bluedogs in 2009.

As Joe Biden said, "IT'S A BIG FUCKIN' DEAL".

Now it's up to us to pick up the ball and work toward improving it, or better yet, getting single payer passed.

Hell, it might be 2019 before we can even get a bill put before the Congress for single payer. It might be more years than that before it passes into law but we have to keep trying. Teddy Roosevelt was president in the first decade of the 20th Century (1901 to 1908 I believe), so it took just about 100 years for a health care reform bill to be passed.

It ain't gonna be easy. This is America. Capitalism reigns. Profit motives reign. Insurance companies are not going just voluntarily roll over and not try to make huge profits. They make less profit with the ACA then before but they still make something, which is the only way the ACA was going to pass.

Once people see that the ACA is not the end of the world, and maybe big insurance should not be profiting off of people's misery, we'll be able to move towards single payer (WOOHOO!).

The ACA is better than what we had but clearly it's just a stepping stone.