You should have to "earn" the right to keep your family healthy?? If I am a family of 4 and our income is say $30,000 a year(median income for many)..health care(and I am being conservative) is at least 800 a month..that's 10,000 a year...how could I afford health care. Again, health care should NEVER be determined upon how much money you make.

Guess what? Your money is being taken already! A family who cannot afford health inusurance-gets a sick family member, they go to the ER-get an operation-heart, cancer ect which costs 100's of thousands of $..they could not afford the health insurance and obviously cannot pay for it...guess who pays for it-you guessed the people who have insurance..it is tacked onto your premium!!..Go ask an insurance company.

Thank you and so well put!

This is the first line of your article:"Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. " Stop..no need to read anymore. The health of your spouse, children and family should never be determined upon how much money you earn. Go to other countries and find out why children die of Tetnus after 7 days of being born. Why, because they cannot afford the 50 cent tetnus shot. That child could have grown up to be a great person, leader, contributor to society...but because they cannot afford basic health care because of their monetary wealth their child die, while others who could afford basic healthcare their child can live. That's why people like Gates, Clinton, Buffet, George W. Bush and many others travel the world.