When did Healthcare become a right?

In a recently posted CNN article concerning Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's fiscal policies the following quotation was reported:

"For a drop in the bucket, every single kid in the state could have health insurance," said state Rep. Les Gara, a Democrat from Anchorage. "For a drop in the bucket, we don't have to be one of the worst states in terms of high school graduation rates."

This was in response to Gov. Palin sending a $1,200 check to every man, woman and child in the State of Alaska, which were the result of a windfall profits tax on high oil profits in 2007.

Since when is it the government's job to require that every kid (or anybody else, for that matter) have insurance? Who will administer the insurance program? The government? The same United States Federal Government whose oversight gives us $600 hammers and $1200 toilet seats for the U.S. Air Force? Give me a freaking break!

Democrats routinely take the position that everybody that does not have insurance wants it if it was affordable. Well, I sold insurance for a year (most miserable time of my life) and 95% of the time I was rejected by the prospect. Most of the rejections were based on the fact that they felt that buying insurance was a "gamble". And darn near every prospect that opted not to buy ... lived in a single-family home, owned at least one car of which one car was 3 years or less old, owned at least one late-model color television set, owned at least one high fidelity stereo or sound entertainment system.

Yes, there are *some* Americans who do not have insurance because they truly cannot afford it. But the many Americans who do not have insurance have elected to buy consumer goods or go to ball games instead.

I will never support nationalized healthcare insurance because at the same time that it theoretically "uplifts" those who "can't" afford it, it penalizes us who have made the sacrifice and pay for healthcare of our own choosing.