It’s really hot in the Rose Garden and I am standing behind President Obama, trying not to fidget. I don’t know where to look, so I stare at the back of his head. It’s a nice head. He’s talking about the Affordable Health Care Act, which everyone can start signing up for today, October 1. When I had a job, affordable health care had always seemed like a great and necessary thing to me. I supported it. I voted for it. Now I needed it. Here’s why. April 2011, New York As I came out of the subway, I saw a flurry of texts from my cousins. I was late for a doctor’s appointment, so I decided to...