Medical Costs

The Affordable Care Act is trying to fix the skyrocketing cost of medicine, at least in part.  It is a new law to get new people onto insurance who could not afford it previously.  The young, who don't need much care, would sign up, and there $$$ would pay for the elderly, like me, who do need it.  The cost for each person would be reasonable for what you got.  Or so it is supposed to be.  You can read the papers.  The Pope on the other hand is trying to fix the church, but wisely, he did not, up to now, pass any new laws.  And he does not have the checks and balances of our USA constitutional government to slow him down.  If the pope passes a law, too soon, it will work for some and not for others, and some people will ignore it while others praise it.  Welcome to the institutional world.  What the Pope is trying to do is change a way of being church.  It is an interior change focused more on the gospel that is often ignored when passing church rules.  Law, dogma, doctrine, ritual cannot change a mindset.  It cannot transform a person.   The Pope is trying to live what Jesus said and did.  The Pope is not trying to channel Pius IX.