Some healthcare-reform ammo for you ladies:

[i-am-pellucid.livejournal.com]

http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2009/07/per-capita-spending-and-life-expectancy.html

The blog cites this study, which you can use in place of the blog if you're arguing with a crowd that won't accept statistics from a non-liberal media source:
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20061017_OhsfeldtSchneiderPresentation.pdf