Editorial: "Of course, there is no universal ‘right’ to health care"

The Las Vegas Review Journal gets it right as it mocks the opinion of a management professor:

“This is basically the way medicine works in a Third World country,” Temple University health care management professor David Barton Smith told The AP. “There’s no acknowledgement of any universal right to health care.”

Of course, there is no universal “right” to health care. A true right doesn’t impose an obligation on others. And when people such as Mr. Smith insist that health care be “free,” they conveniently forget that literally trillions of tax dollars would be required to convert the country’s semi-private system into a public one.