Is there a "right" to health care? The UN, the EU, and now the US Congress are on record as taking the affirmative on this question. The basic rationale is that the fact of everyone's needing health care (true) translates directly into everyone's having a right to it (false). Such thinking is emblematic of the perpetually puerile, primary-process predisposition of the modern liberal mind: "I need, therefore you give." Or, as another famous "progressive" once put it: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." What this admittedly abbreviated version of the "health-care-is-a-right" position misses is...