Dr. Paul Hsieh takes the fight to the Denver Post where he irks a columnist:

The craziest letter to the editor that I’ve read in some time came from a physician who claimed that Coloradans have no right to health care.

Seems the guy not only forgot his Hippocratic oath but also the law.

If you’re sick enough or badly injured, they have to treat you at the emergency room regardless of your ability to pay.

Dr. Hsieh responds:

Jim Spencer called my April 25 letter “crazy” and accused me of violating my oath as a physician because I argued that health care is not a right.

The exact opposite is true. My moral responsibility to my patients requires that I oppose socialized medicine. When countries like Canada attempt to guarantee a “right” to health care, it inevitably leads to rationing of vital medical services. Under their “single payer” system, Canadian patients routinely wait for months before government bureaucrats allow them to get MRI scans or surgeries that are immediately available in the U.S. Doctors cannot practice good medicine when handcuffed by such a system – and many will quit medicine rather than work under those conditions. (For more information, see www.WeStandFIRM.org.)

Trying to create a universal “right” to health care turns patients into pieces of meat and turns doctors into slaves. Neither is right for Colorado.

He also points to FIRM: Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine. Kudos to Paul for continuing to fight the good fight.