   How should healthcare be rationed?  Healthcare is a commodity
like any other.  Like any other good or service in the material
world, there are not enough healthcare resources to satisfy
everyone's desire; so it must be rationed. I am of the position
that the most equitable, just, and humanitarian rationing system
is the price system.  The free-market price system is a system
of emergent order. This order is arrived at through competition
and cooperation, but always voluntarily. This is in contrast to
other rationing systems, which require coercive force. These
systems are therefore illegitimate in a free society based on
Natural Rights.  Voluntary action is not good enough for the
current administration and they want non-price rationing. What
does non-price rationing entail? In the UK for instance, if you
need a kidney and are 59 years of age, you can be put on a
waiting list, if you are older, you get nothing. If you are
blind in one eye and wish to undergo corrective surgery, you may
only do so if you lo