[berettafan]

Teo your sentiment was the overwhelming consensus in a thread on smoking not long ago. i tend to applaud ideas like sjf's but i am most certainly in the minority.

noah interestingly enough when the US Gov. wants to promote a particular behavior or ethnic group or special interest group it offers all sorts of tax incentives to do so. uncle sam wanted the big 3 to earn more money so it offered accelerated depreciation on large vehicles (the subliminal message was 'go buy an SUV' even if the actual language wasn't so bold). however, any tax subsidies offered to docs to ease the burden of forced volunteerism would essentially be the subsidizing of health care for illegals. the difference being that we'd all share the cost instead of dumping it on medical professionals.

docs shouldn't be bearing this cost at ALL and neither should the rest of us. i would find it preferable that we all share the burden rather than taking it directly out of the pockets of people like Moses BUT this is not a solution.