When ‘free healthcare’ can’t fix your joint, it offers you euthanasia

Published July 31, 2026 11:00am ET



The clueless market universal healthcare as a right: free at the point of use, available to all. In reality, when price is removed and budgets constrain supply, care is rationed by time. Patients wait. Disease progresses. Productivity evaporates. And in the extreme, some systems offer an exit when treatment does not arrive. 

If something constitutes a right, it means someone is compelled to render it. Doctors said no. I’ll take my time and education and play golf. You can take your time and spend it waiting for appointments. 

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