What I want the US Government to do is most certainly NOT irrelevant. The healthcare system as it exists in the United States is, as you yourself have just admitted, unfair and inequitable. As Catholics we have a RESPONSIBILITY to point out such injustice, whether it directly affects us or not. (For the record, this particular debate DOES directly affect innumerable friends and relatives, including my wife and daughter, both of whom are dual Canadian-U.S. citizens).

And the fact that majorities of Americans are able to be manipulated into acting against their own best interests by self-serving politicians backed by heavily-funded lobbies and super PACs is NOT sufficient as a basis for claiming that an approach is appropriate. If the majority chooses to do something that is immoral, then the majority shares in the immorality of that course of action. Their superior numbers have no bearing whatsoever on the appropriateness of their choice.