If Health Care Is A Basic Human Right, Can Doctors Be Rationed?

Forbes reports on the coming sovietization of American medicine:

Given the fact that all medical specialties have to be licensed, can’t imbalances be addressed by limiting the number of new licenses granted for specialties and geographies judged to be overstaffed? Municipalities limit the number of taxis in a city, what principle stops the government from doing the same for orthopedic surgeons? And transportation isn’t even a basic human right.

As doctors slowly surrender their position as independent professionals and become public servants, with ever larger portions of their billings funneled through Uncle Sam, why should they expect to be given more choice in the way they are deployed than, say, members of the National Guard?

When someone else pays the bill: freedom of choice must diminish.