Exactly. I have no problem helping people, just like I have no problem helping people get fed and sheltered. But when you make it a *right*, you move things to a completely new and unsustainable paradigm.

On #2, it sucks that they think they couldn’t afford the $100 for their kid, but if they don’t qualify for S-CHIP, there’s no reason that they shouldn’t have $100 available for their kid. Or at least, explain that they don’t have it and could get it by the time they are billed by the hospital. Just because people can’t afford something doesn’t mean that it’s too expensive. Maybe they make bad purchasing decisions. As someone who doesn’t (ok, truthfully, my wife won’t let me), I don’t feel like subsidizing that do.

On #3, I have a friend who is a pastor and they seem to get along just fine paying for their insurance even with a stay-at-home wife and soon to be two kids. Regardless, this guy made the choice to be a pastor just as I made a choice to be a rich and successful, and very sexy, software developer. No one is forcing him to be a pastor. If Church’s are having trouble, maybe there are too many of them. Regardless, I do not think the difficulties of Church’s should have any bearing what-so-ever on any legislation.

The last thing I will comment is on the “right” to health care. Health care is a service and a product, if you consider medicine. So how can anyone have a “right” to anyone else’s time or property?