Healthcare debate

[Full Quiver]

In the midst of this stirring debate comments have been made by liberals including the Pres and the Speaker of the House that doctors against the liberal plans are in medicine for the money and not out of compassion.

If docs are expected to perform their craft without goals of profit in the name of the greater good then shouldn't Al Gore do the same?

Seriously, if a doc should help a few people out of compassion and without profit then by all means Al Gore's agenda to save the planet should be without any profit.

Doesn't this logic make sense?

By the way, I have spoken to several docs and everyone of them say the democrats have the wrong idea.

[MacUser]

You are very smart man. FQ.
It's this type of simple wisdom.. I teach to my son and daughter.

Request the same standards from the ones proposing them.
Examine how they live and hold them accountable... first.

[dolfan]

I didn't know doctors were supposed to practice medicine for any other reason than to make money at it, honestly. We all want to do what we love to do. Ultimately, we do what we get paid to do. And, we tend to love it more if we make more at it, or we learn to tolerate it and bear it because of that. A few people are blessed enough to do what they love and to love it in spite of meager financial returns on it. Those people have great perspective, IMO. But, being a doctor is not a call to poverty. It is a type of heresy against freedom to suggest that doctors should support socialized medicine or be labeled as greedy or "in it" for the wrong reasons.