re: Is healthcare coverage a right?

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Health care isn't a free market

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repeating it doesn't make it so.

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there's no elasticity of demand.

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than why do insurance companies and providers negotiate pricing every year?

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If I need x product/procedure/treatment to live, and otherwise I die

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human psychology is wired to pay whatever price is asked.

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So why doesn't a cardiac surgeon charge $1,000,000,000,000 for a surgery?

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Treating health care like it's shopping for credit card rates

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Because something is different doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Treating health care like it's picking out a puppy at the shelter is similarity absurd.

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underscores a severe lack of comprehension of the human dimension of the issue

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Not at all.

Humans are the core of medical care providers. Every one of those people have a strong economic need to be paid and rewarded for their work.

If anyone is ignoring the "human dimension" it's those mooching off the system--and those that would enable more of it.

Those that are forced to pay for another's "free" services are directly harmed by having to pay for it. They could have instead sent their children to better schools. They could expand their businesses. They could provide for their families better and more efficiently than the government is capable of.

Yet somehow... the real and tangible economic (and human) costs to those providing funding for "free" care continually ignored by enablers.

Anything looks good when you neglect to factor in half of the equation.