If Obamacare explodes, insurance companies will go bankrupt and that bankruptcy may yet give us a sinlge payer plan, although Congress would have to eact the payroll or value added tax to fund it. Health care is a positive right, like food stamps or retirement income. Sadly, positive rights tend to be underfunded (a word to the wise for guaranteed income advocates).

The right to life is both a positive and negative right. The negative right is soley the right to not forcing eugenic abortions on poor women and prisoners or parents on teenage daughters. Birth control cannot be forced either, although some judges have gotten away with it until someone notices. The positive right to life can go two ways. One is through government prohibition on abortion, which steps on a woman’s right not to procreate. The second part of a right to life is government support of childbirth and childhood, which includes health care, food stamps and an adequate child tax credit.