[Borodog]

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If you are paid with taxpayer dollars, money that has been confiscated from individuals who could have used it to send their kids to a better school, take their family on a vacation, buy a new car, invest for their retirement, or blow on coke and hookers, it is immoral, in my humble opinion.

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Does that make it wrong for me to accept/treat Medicare patients? (well over half my practice)

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No, it is not immoral for you to accept and treat Medicare patients. But it is immoral to accept payment for those services in the form of stolen goods, i.e. taxes.

Believe me, I know how pervasive the system is. And I know that it can often seem in the self-interest of people such as yourself and our friend the neuroscientist, and for that matter myself, to "work the system" with an "I'ma git mine" attitude. I just eventually came to the conclusion that the benefits you supposedly receive do not come close to what you have to give up (whether it is easily apparent or not).

Government is the great fiction wherein everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.