Skyrocketing healthcare costs, along with staggering job losses in this economy, have highlighted the limitations of our current healthcare structure. Core health services that are affordable are the right of every citizen. However, overtaxing upper-income wage earners in a nationalized plan as the ranks of the unemployed, underemployed, and part-time workers grow, simply glosses over the issue of affordable healthcare. I’m a biker and biker’s have sayings about all kinds of things. One is about saddlebags: “They won’t hold everything you want, but they will hold everything you need.” This is the attitude we should take with our healthcare system: How much do we need and how can we make it affordable?