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To: Father Terrence who wrote (42090)	6/27/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Are you aware that the members of the AMA voted this week to unionize?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (42090)	6/27/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: im~ristine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

at what point does your brain become elective, at what point does your ability to breath become elective, at what point does your ability to walk become elective, you don't need to walk, you don't need to breath, you don't need to raise that fork, to your mouth, you can breath tomorrow, you can taste your food next week, you can rot in that bed, it's elective if you want to get out of bed, you can rot in your own juices, at what point does a total hip surgery become elective, at what point does you ability to swallow your own spit, become elective, at what point does this happen, would the government please tell me, when it is elective to be able to “shake” after I take a pee…..

To: Father Terrence who wrote (42090)	6/27/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<People in the medical profession, especially doctors, would become "economic slaves". Rights are only a TRUE right if they do not violate the basic rights of others. Socialism attempts to create rights which violates other individual's real rights. Socialized medicine is great... unless you happen to be a doctor.>> At this point doctors obviously feel like they are economic slaves to the might of the HMOs in America. Now this is all private enterprise, so obviously the concept of economic slavery is a wider one than whether the slaveholder is business or the government. That is why they have decided to unionize, in fact. No one is forced to become a doctor. American doctors are paid higher salaries than doctors in any other country on earth. Perhaps, since we have free will, people who do not want to heal and help people as their primary motive should choose another profession. Is that somehow making them slaves?