...omg

"Choice is only half the story," answered quackbuster William Jarvis a few weeks after the trial. "What about accountability? Practicing medicine is not a right. It's a privilege.

My emotional reaction to that quote is that it is a privilege the rich grant unto themselves. That privilege keeps business going the way it is and will shoo away people (who get too good at what they practice).

Is drinking water a privilege?

Can't we decide this for ourselves? Whether or not to do something? Are we going to have to qualify in order to drink clean water? At what point does this privilege end? I'm not sure what continuum is used to measure the length of this privilege, whether it's on the medical yardstick, or the legal yardstick or on the yardstick of what the majority of the nation thinks, popularity.

I guess the rhetorical question is, is it all three? Tweet