[thecavemaster]

Most of the 40 million who are uninsured are young healthy folks who choose to take the risk and go without private health insurance. If the government is going to provide all of our "needs", then I think it should provide all my food as well. I need food more than healthcare. I also need clothes, do you know how many Americans can't afford decent clothes?

I think you make an argument of the extreme (government providing for all our needs). Probably, the food we do eat causes a lot of our healthcare problems (obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.). As long as a Goodwill exists, and a few consignment stores, I won't need governmental clothes. I do think the WPA during the Depression years was a better answer to hard times and poverty than the current system.