| Dr. Law’s logic is bizarre at best.
Following the metaphor, if the hospitals or airlines want to charge extra for a service they provide, I agree that’s their business. We are free to choose the class of SERVICE that we want to pay for and receive.
But the doctor charging more is like the airport charging a higher exit tax. The airport doesn’t provide a different service depending on my class of ticket, but the airline does. It is just an example of a “luxury tax.”
Law is obviously trying to rationalize his “tax.”
Now, what can we do? We are consumers in a free Capitalist economy. We can vote with our feet and go to doctors who don’t make this extra charge. Who are they? I don't think the hospital should be held liable for the doctors actions. It is the doctors themselves that seem to be the issue.
Maybe we should gather together this community of ours to make a bigger noise with the councils and government groups that oversee these issues. I have time on my hands until June, and would be happy to work with others on this issue. Please contact me off-list if you are interested.  |