No, there is still a universal entitlement.

"The whole basis of the Canadian health care system is universal entitlement."

The right to education is a universal entitlement to education, a right that is recognized as a human right.

"The expressed goals of the Clinton Administration include things we're very interested in, such as universal entitlement to health care," said Msgr.

He also announced that he would end the universal entitlement to child benefit, and removed the entitlement from people on the 40% and 50% income tax rates from 2013.

And the entire problem is complicated by our society's choosing to treat health care as a matter of insurance and not as a universal entitlement.

Raising the Medicare premium for the affluent is a bad idea, because it erodes the concept of universal entitlement.

Indeed, Mr. Thomas points to a Republican plan to show that the idea of a universal entitlement is in sync with party policy even if the words rub the wrong way.

Our national tradition of rights is not merely different from the European conception of universal entitlements; it is incompatible.

In the end, the compromise reached stops short of making nursery places a universal entitlement but does acknowledge the changing role of mothers in the labour market.