Now, about doctors…you boggle my mind!! You equate free market capitalism with Medicare?! Doctors are being forced to have a lower income due to the elimination of our free market. You also amaze me that you care so much about the poor invaders but tell the doctors to find another profession. You will soon experience the sad results of our stupidity in this nation to disallow doctors to make a good living. The standard of care is going to drop dramatically. I am sure that these illegal invaders who have been depending on working, tax-paying American citizens to pay for their anchor babies and other emergency room trips will rush right in to take care of the rest of us when we need medical care that won’t be here. Feel-gooder mentality is going to lead to a very costly and painful result.

My point about illegal Mexicans is that they are doing what anyone in their circumstance would do; obtain a better life even if it means to cross the border and do hardworking back breaking jobs. When I was in college, I worked in restaurants. And let me tell you, those poor illegals worked 10 to 14 hours per day, and they worked their tail off. I have all the sympathy in the world for people who come from a poor country whose only crime is to have a better life. But I have no sympathy for someone who wants to come here illegally and then rob people, steal property from hard working Americans, etc…

Now, about doctors. I understand doctors worked hard for their credentials, and made sacrifices. But why do doctors want to fight the free market? Free market capitalism Greg has made America the most prosperous nation in the world. Doctors are demanding a subsidy from Medicare that the free market would not bear. We live in a free country. If doctors feel they are being “ripped off” or “cheated” then they can find another line of work just like any other professional in a free country who feels that their salary is not in line with their output.

Regarding doctors, you are again showing your inability to see the whole picture. Doctors spend 8 to 12 years and come out of school with at least $250K of debt, work harder than most people could imagine, make peanuts for the first 3-5 years and face incessant abuse and challenges from those who resent and covet their income they finally achieve. They invest those years and dollars with the hope of making a good living and it is not reasonable to demand that they not make a significant income as we demand when they get paid peanuts through the government programs. When they can’t make a good living we will end up with a lower standard of persons pursuing that profession.

So you have compassion for illegal invaders who take jobs Americans need to be doing but you cold-heartedly tell doctors to “obtain another job” after investing so much of their lives toward that profession! Some people need to learn how to think, but I seriously doubt they will.

Everybody is hurting in today’s economy and doctors, lawyers, teachers, police officers, union tradesman should not be immune to the economic downturn either. Doctors are playing scare tactics (i.e. give us full Medicare payments or else we will shut down our offices). If the doctors don’t like having less Medicare payments, then they can obtain another job. But I seriously doubt they will.