"There is no right to health care."

Spoken like someone who has adequate health care coverage. It should speak volumes that the other nations of the world who don't offer health care as a right are Third World countries teeming with uncontrolled disease. As two million new Americans are removed from the ranks of the insured every year in our "sustainable" system, it's only a matter of time until the house of cards tumble.

Your economic justifications for the self-destructive status quo also ring hollow. The biggest deterrant to business growth in America is the need to finance every employee's Cadillac health care plan at a rate of $3-4 per hour or more for every employee. Especially for smaller businesses, that onerous cost burden with its double-digit inflation annually cancels out any perceived advantage America may have over Europe and Canada with our lower tax burden.

Continuity of the current system will produce a mixture of two undesirable outcomes. a) Businesses will set up operations elsewhere on the globe (both in developed economies and the Third World) so they're not saddled with the annual health care costs of thousands of dollars per employee that are not imposed on them in most other countries of the world. And b) of the businesses that continue to operate in America, fewer will be able to afford the 15-20% annual growth in health care costs and will elect to drop coverage for employees.

It's hard to understand how desperate things will have to become before apologists for our current floundering health care system will be willing to concede their error of their fantastical free-market worldview. As the ranks of the uninsured expands across the tracks from politically-ignored and disempowered blue-collar neighborhoods and into the suburbs, the political pressure for national health care is likely to become to overwhelming to ignore....just as the political pressure for government-financed prescription drugs for seniors grew unstoppable.