As Ayn Rand stated:
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‘Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything–except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the “welfare” of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only “to serve.” . . . I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind–yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands?’
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This is what is a stake in medicine, and only freedom can save it.

You greedy good for nothings should pack up and move to a different country to practice your graft.

We don’t need you and your 12 years of school to hand out scripts for antibiotics.

The moral life is lived in pursuing one’s own happiness by creating the values one’s life requires. The moral man is not a beggar, a moocher or a theif. He is a trader. Read Ayn Rand’s “The Virtue Of Selfishness”

The moral government defends Individual Rights. Read “Man’s Rights” and “The Nature Of Government” by Ayn Rand.

I was drafted into military service as an MD, assigned to where they wanted me to go, and assigned duties. That amounted to Federal Licensure. They could easily mandate the same again for Medicare, Medicaid providers. Medical services became politicized since all providers were paid equally, it eventually became
” what is the least you can do.”

The higher the rank, the more services, attention, and promptness. Can you imagine a general sitting in a waiting room all day to be seen?

I expect a similar scenario if Federal legislation comes in. The state in which I was stationed had licensure by county so they could direct physician practice location. Naturally the larger cities were premium and hard to get licensure.

I expect a similar outcome unless enough of public taxpayers and voters support independence of the profession, as an alternative to low cost medical care. Good luck . Medical administration was a good deal; watching doctors work up to their quota.

It is ludicrous to think that the United States government can fund anything, much less a “government option” in medical care. Isn’t that what Medicare is? Look at the debt Medicare has created. And for what? America, wake up!

The “chickens” are “coming home to roost” and it isn’t pretty. Unfortunately, it is not because of capitalism that this is happening; rather, it is because capitalism has been all but obliterated in America and is being blamed for every ill that has been created by statism, the government control of the economy.

The only hope for mankind is capitalism in politics as the proper social system. It’s not too late. Fight for reason, self-interest, capitalism, freedom. If you do that, America is safe, and so is American medicine.

Mark A. Hurt, MD
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