Comments on: Taking on the single-payer zealots http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/taking-on-single-payer-zealots.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/taking-on-single-payer-zealots.html#comment-86727 Anonymous Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/07/taking-on-the-single-payer-zealots.html#comment-86727 Alrhough I share your disdain for zealots and believe that compromise is necessary, I wonder why we attach the perjorative title of zealot to only those who are in favor of a single-payer system.<br/><br/>When I was in medical school in the early 90's I heard many anti-single payer "zealots", otherwise known as my attending physicians, criticize the Clintons and "socialized medicine", while at the same time having their hands in the Medicare cookie jar. They were not open to discussion or debate. And, inching up on 20 yrs later, where did these anti-single payer zealots get us? Things only got worse while listening to them.<br/><br/>Let's finally have the debate.<br/>And let's not be attaching labels to either side, it will only impede the discussion.<br/><br/>A concerned family practitioner in New York Alrhough I share your disdain for zealots and believe that compromise is necessary, I wonder why we attach the perjorative title of zealot to only those who are in favor of a single-payer system.

When I was in medical school in the early 90′s I heard many anti-single payer “zealots”, otherwise known as my attending physicians, criticize the Clintons and “socialized medicine”, while at the same time having their hands in the Medicare cookie jar. They were not open to discussion or debate. And, inching up on 20 yrs later, where did these anti-single payer zealots get us? Things only got worse while listening to them.

Let’s finally have the debate.
And let’s not be attaching labels to either side, it will only impede the discussion.

A concerned family practitioner in New York

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