For me, the Money Quote was this:

This is something I hear about from entrepreneurs I meet – people who’ve got a good idea, and the expertise and determination to build it into a thriving business. But many can’t take that leap because they can’t afford to lose the health insurance they have at their current job. [Emphasis mine.]

I’m a Liberal, so I have to take this idea a step further and say that healthcare portability is crucial not just for our Free Market Supersucktacular Shock Doctrined Econoplex of Doom, but for a thriving culture in general. How many potential poets, dancers, authors, artists, playwrights, composers and musicians might we liberate from the tyranny of cubiclespace if they no longer had to work just for the privilege of health benefits? Isn’t there something to be said for proactively insuring American Exceptionalism against sickness and death, just so that talent might grow unhindered by fear and ruin?