>It's amazing how capitalism can alienate even those who do quite
>well by it, such as American doctors, who have an average net income
>of over $160,000 a year. A front-page article in today's Wall
>Street Journal reports that U.S. doctors increasingly identify
>themselves as Democrats rather than Republicans because of the loss
>of autonomy they've experienced under managed care.
>
>What impressed me was the type of language used by one physician
>quoted in this article, viz.: "'Republicans represent capital and
>Democrats represent labor,' says Dr. [David] Duffner, the Tyler
>[Tex.] orthopedist. 'Physicians used to be capital, but now we're
>labor in the view of managed care. We're fungible commodities. So
>if they drop one doctor from a [managed care] contract, they just
>get another, even if it means that a family that has been coming to
>you for 20 years has to switch to another doctor.'"
Treacherous petits bourgeoises. Can't trust 'em.
Doug