Is it unethical for a doctor to refuse Medicaid and Medicare patients?

[Egalitarian Thug]

180. If I had made any assumptions you might be right, but I haven't and you're not.

You've taken this past the point of any relevance to anything except whatever scenarios swirl around inside your own mind. Perhaps they collided with all those tables you are keeping in your "top tier" mind?


So to review (and kick this thread one more time):
The OP asked if it was ethical for a doctor to refuse treatment to a medicare patient. KT2000 replies that a church had started a clinic because the practice had become so common, to which MrSlayer implied that making money was the primary motivation for doctors.

antigone382 related a story about the doctor they know that has found great relief practicing in Canada because (s)he can focus on treating patients without worrying about their ability to pay, to which I replied that people should go into medicine to practice medicine, not for the money.

(Here's where it takes a turn toward the bizarre)
You jump in with a non sequitur regarding mechanics doing their job for pay and go off about studying for 23 YEARS!!1! and THEY HAVE TO BE COMPENSATED FOR ALL THE TIME THEY'VE LOST

I, foolishly thinking that perhaps you simply misunderstood what was being said, replied that doctors in Socialist countries are indeed compensated and live very nice, fulfilling lives, they just generally don't become super rich. I go on to opine that people that want to get rich should pick a field other than medicine and asked you to consider a scenario.

You ignored what was written as well as the question, to go off on your bizarre rant about how unfortunate the doctor is compared to the "lowly" garbage collector and proceed to build some fantastic monetary scenario using invalid numbers plugged into a compound interest formula you found on an investment website.

It was when you went off on how Jonas Salk was so lucky that he didn't have to worry about having his lights turned off or sending his child to ballet classes, that I should have realized that there was no rational thought going on here and just ignored you. But no, you were writing in complete sentences and I was just sure that you had somehow got the wrong idea along the way and decided to answer in kind.

The mistake was mine. I'm old enough to know better.

On the upside, after leaving the field and having encountered a contemporary "top tier" developer I have a much clearer understanding of why every database I encounter now returns invalid results. GIGO and the Peter Principle rule America!