Can you imaging a politician telling a grocer he has to hand out food for free? Would you vote for a candidate who promised to force construction workers to build you a "free" house? Why then, do people get all excited when politicians promise to give out "free" health care?

"In a Kerry administration, we will stop being the only advanced nation in the world which fails to understand that health care is not a privilege for the elected and the connected and the wealthy, it is a right for every American," [John Kerry] said.

As Neal Boortz points out, you cannot divine a right from someone else's trade.

If you claim medical care as a right, then you are claiming a right to someone's time or property. In either case, you are making a claim to a portion of that person's life. You cannot obtain medical care without someone either spending time on you or supplying you with some sort of product, be it drugs or medical devices. If you're claiming a right to a medical practitioner's time, then you are claiming a right to that portion of his life. If you are claiming a right to some drug or medical equipment, then you are claiming a right to whatever portion of someone's life they spent acquiring or creating that product. Any way you cut it, your claim of a right to health care is a message to someone else that you own a portion of their very existence.

There is no such thing as a right that takes something away from someone else. If you look at our Bill of Rights, not one denies someone of life, liberty, or property. But the "right" to "free health care" must tax someone. As economists point out, there are no free lunches. And when you start claiming a "right" to a service or product that someone else works hard to provide, where do you draw the line.

If you have a right to health care, why not a right to a home? Why not a right to a warm coat in winter? Why not a right to groceries? Apparently health care should be a right because you might die without it. If that's the case, then food should certainly be a right because you're flat-out going to die without it.

I hate to break it to you, but you are going to die with or without health care.