[maxharris]

You need a new TV to live?

You're making the mistake of defining "life" as only the things you need to for physiological/material functioning. But there's more to life than metabolism!

A human life also includes art, music, fine cuisine, fresh cut flowers, travel, and an almost endless number of other things, depending on whose particular life you're talking about.

Think of someone that loves movies. He definitely needs a new TV to live, and he's got a right to it as long as he's earned it.

[wpietri]

This seems like a further attempt to muddy the waters. There is a vast difference between "let's make sure people don't die from easily treatable disease" and "let's give everybody free TVs". I understand why, rhetorically, it's convenient for you to pretend they're the same, but the approach mainly persuades me that you're not serious.