There Is No ‘Right’ to Health Care - WSJ.com

Dalrymple: There Is No ‘Right’ to Health Care - WSJ.com: "The question of health care is not one of rights but of how best in practice to organize it. America is certainly not a perfect model in this regard. But neither is Britain, where a universal right to health care has been recognized longest in the Western world.

Not coincidentally, the U.K. is by far the most unpleasant country in which to be ill in the Western world. Even Greeks living in Britain return home for medical treatment if they are physically able to do so.

The government-run health-care system—which in the U.K. is believed to be the necessary institutional corollary to an inalienable right to health care—has pauperized the entire population."

A British physician explains how the concept of a "right to health care" has taken Britain, the leader in such thinking, down a path to substandard health care.