[Hoot Gibson]

Given the earller posts, I'm not so sure the "pay to play" analogy is that far fetched. You don't believe healthcare is a right, correct? If not a right, then what is it? Is it a privilege one gets if one has insurance? or cash to put in the doctor's hand? However, if healthcare is a right, then the analogy isn't worth thinking about. So, maybe you've changed your mind...

Of course health care is a right. You should be free to buy the best medical care that you can afford. If somebody else is willing to voluntarily buy health care for you, then you have a right to accept their charity. You also (should) have the right to purchase any type of health insurance that you want to purchase, from full coverage to coverage against catastrophic illness. Nobody has a right to force somebody else to pay for their health care.

Socialists have a very difficult time distinguishing between their property and the property of others and they also seem perplexed about the considerable difference between a right and a privilege.

As Lady Thatcher said, "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."