There isn’t enough money in the U.S. to pay for free, 
    wait-free top-quality universal health care. The law of 
    supply and demand can no more be repealed than the law 
    that all documentary films must be left-wing.

    Not everyone can have everything they want because there 
    is not an unlimited supply of anything (except maybe air);
    that’s why Canada and Britain have lotteries to determine 
    who gets treatment. Deciding who gets what and when 
    involves rationing, either by price or by waiting or some 
    combination of the two. If the Mets announced that World 
    Series tickets were free to anyone lining up in front of 
    the Shea Stadium box office, you’d have to go get in line 
    now. Medicare, which isn’t an unlimited benefit, is by 
    itself projected to eat up a third of federal tax revenues
    by 2030. There isn’t enough money in the U.S. to pay for 
    free, wait-free top-quality universal health care. The law
    of supply and demand can no more be repealed than the law 
    that all documentary films must be left-wing. Gratzer's 
    book suggests a real-world solution: decentralization that
    gives patients more choice: "both failed options [HMOs and
    Medicare/Medicaid] share one fatal feature. They remove 
    choices from patients and give them to government or 
    corporate bureaucrats. Restricting patient choices in this
    way, flouting the laws of basic economics, has been a 
    mistake. It's the reason why, while pocket calculators 
    have declined in price from $500 to $5, the price of 
    pacemakers keeps rising."