[...] about Politico as of October 1, 2009 MD’s VS JD’s – Who Do You Trust With Your Health Care? – floppingaces.net 10/01/2009 The White House is ramping up its message machine to ram [...]

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First, thanks for covering this story. You’re about the only one in the entire world to do so. Second, I salute these doctors for standing up for the idea that they are NOT slaves. Even if there were only 100 of them, they will make a difference.

Doctors are not the servants of their patients. No free man is a “servant” of those he deals with. Doctors are traders, like everyone else in a free society—and they should bear that title proudly, considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

The pursuit of his own productive career is—and, morally, should be—the primary goal of a doctor’s work, as it is the primary goal of any self-respecting, productive man. But there is no clash of interests among rational men in a free society, and there is no clash of interests between doctors and patients. In pursuing his own career, a doctor does have to do his best for the welfare of his patients. This relationship, however, cannot be reversed: one cannot sacrifice the doctor’s interests, desires and freedom to whatever the patients (or their politicians) might deem to be their own “welfare”.

“Many doctors know this, but are afraid to assert their rights, because they dare not challenge the morality of altruism, neither in the public’s mind nor in their own. Others are collectivists at heart, who believe that socialized medicine is morally right and who feel guilty while opposing it. Still others are so cynically embittered that they believe that the whole country consists of fools or parasites eager to get something for nothing—that morality and justice are futile—that ideas are impotent—that the cause of freedom is doomed—and that the doctors’ only chance lies in borrowing the enemy’s arguments and gaining a brief span of borrowed time.

–Ayn Rand, How Not to Fight Socialized Medicine, March, 1963

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Neither at this point in time but the MDs in my neck of the woods are as old as I am and I am in better physical shape than they are and my Doctor smokes cigars.

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First of all, I am curious as to your profession, and as to your rhetorical question as to why you’ve never heard of a rally by members of the healthcare industry supporting the takeover of their profession, it’s because other than a few who may benefit from this takeover (or think they might), there IS no support for it, from them.

Hi Larry.

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