I believe healthcare is a right to all Americans, I know you don't and we will get no place arguing about that. Here's the thing about entitlement that makes healthcare different than any other business in this nation. If you walk in to a car dealership and want a car but have no way to pay for it the car dealer is under no ethical obligation and has taken no oath that says he has to give you a car. When you walk into an ER with a gaping chest wound that you would like repaired but you have no way to pay for it the Doctor in that room took an Oath and is under ethical obligation to provide you with care that may help repair that chest wound. We have millions of people without means to pay clogging up our ER's and the costs are going up for everyone else as a result and whether you want to believe it or not, that is what leads to higher taxes and higher insurance premiums.

I hope we can both agree that our current system is broken. Mass. has developed a system that tries to deal with that. I said, I don't love the plan, but at least it's something. We are one of only 2 industrialized countries in the world that doesn't insure all of its citizens. We have the best healthcare technology in the world; we develop the most new treatments, the most cutting edge Diagnostics.We have the best hospitals and medical schools in the entire world...and yet, according to the CDC we rank 17th in the world in life expectancy and 28th in the world in infant mortality.

Maybe if instead of referring to infant mortality we called it unintentional abortion more Republicans would jump on board in reforming the current system.