I think you're too facile in comparing health care with economic goods such as crude oil, for which the laws of scarcity ordinarily apply. Compare this statemen

I think you're too facile in comparing health care with economic goods such as crude oil, for which the laws of scarcity ordinarily apply. Compare this statement: "Chemotherapy is expensive, limited, and must be rationed. Not everyone can have as much as they want. There simply is not enough to go around." Certainly this sounds silly to your ears? If you were to say that some treatments are very expensive, and must be rationed, then I'd agree with you. But I believe that there are many treatments that our society can afford to offer to anyone who needs them, without rationing.