Geezer Sermons: Rights - What Rights?

Your tone sounds angry. The US government is one of the largest, if not the largest in the World growing ever larger taking our freedoms & rights as it expands. Surprisingly the framers of America wrote the Constitution to limit government. The founders wrote the bill of rights to spell out the most important freedoms because of their experience of King George and his use of troops upon his subjects & HEAVY taxation.
You've been brain-washed about a right of health care & so-called greedy capitalism. The more you want government to do the less freedom you have. Too bad you thoroughly missed the distinction that rights are imaginary - they are thin as memes & can change with a change in the national conversation. Note that a decade ago we thought that we had the freedom to drive whatever cars or SUV's we wanted & soon government will take that away under the guise of a scientific boondoggle. Why do you think that Congress & Obama want to pass laws in a hurry before the mood changes? The same goes for health insurance. Cuba claims to have universal health care why not move there if you have a problem with ours! It all comes with a price. My favorite writer Heinlein coined the term TANSTAAFL covering it. When the government gets out of private business the costs go down. When the US government got into medicare prices began to go up. I worked in a pharmacy at the time and saw it first hand.  Until health care moves out of the domain of connection with the economic domain we will be stuck with materialistic care at ever increasing cost.  Someday a counter stream will form of true healers who, out of their genuine love for humanity, will actually begin to be able to heal people out of a profound connection to the core of what is human being.  We are not there yet & not a moral enough bunch of people for that to happen at this stage in our evolution, IMHO.