the question I have is health care a universal freedom without limitations
is it a universal right to demand care for which you aren't paying which includes being in an ICU on life support for well over a year. Unfortunately health care is a commodity and increasingly will need to be allocated on terms that balance individual as well as societal needs. Organ transplantation is an example. Organs aren't allocated just based on need but also on the likelihood of the recipient doing well. If your heart or lungs are failing you just don't get placed on the transplant list because it is something you want or demand. If you are 40 with failing lungs and smoking you aren't getting a transplant whether you want one or not.
More and more health care delivery - particularly high cost, limited resource therapies are going to have to be allocated in such a manner in the future.
Health care dollars, beds, physicians, nurses, and other providers are all limited resources and as a country we are going to have to decide how best to deploy them. Many people don't realize that if a health care team is off providing highly intensive care for several hours which is deemed futile or nearly futile those resources are being pulled away from other patients with better chances of survival.
If your loved one with a rapidly progressing process is delayed an hour or 2 from getting to a tertiary care center ICU because of lack of beds - their survival chances are declining (this happens almost every hour of every day - now in the US) due to limited bed and staff availability.
You also have a growing population that value work-life balance much more now than ever before. Fewer and fewer providers are willing to work the weekends, nights, and holidays that are required to run 24/7 services that many patients require.
