P.J., I'm going to take this argument in small incremental steps. For now, forget whether or not health care should be a right, but how are we going to pay for universal health care and give the middle-class tax relief like the President said he would? Obama just signed into law a bill with the price tag of $787B. This is nuts!

Ok, there's a lot there and it's going to take a while for me to go through because I do have a life outside of reading Everyday Citizen blogs. That aside, everyone knows there's a lot of people out there who need health coverage. Your stats above touch on that and there is no denying it. But the question up front is simple - how is universal health care going to be paid for? The U.S. government is going to need an unimaginable amount of money to pull it off. I feel you dodged the question because, either nobody is sure, or nobody right now wants to say the words "huge tax hikes".
I'll tell what, I can save a little time by passing on one blog, the John Edwards one.
I don't have much use for that guy!

P.J., I don't agree with #3). Not unless you meant to say, "the US government does not offer the worlds best health care coverage...", then I would agree. I've always been proud of the quality of our doctors, nurses, and hospitals here in the US. I have a hard time believing that we rank near the bottom in that department. And #5), I've never heard of anybody dieing from "lack of health care". Cancer and heart disease yes, but not that. A statistic like that one would have too much bias in it.
I'm trying to read more of your previous blogs on this topic, but there's so much that I have to admit that I've been doing some skimming. Usually when I read the last one or two paragraphs of a blog that I get to the nitty gritty of the authors intent and attitude. All the above stuff is full of a bunch of miserable little numerical facts and statistics plus Bush bashing.