Dr. C.L. Gray, writing on
Big Government.Com, warns that the pending health care legislation leans closer to the medical beliefs of
Plato than it does to those of
Hippocrates, which is to say it would have doctors serving the state rather than their patients.
Rationing Medicare: UpdateFor the past 2,500 years physicians served only one of two roles in Western culture. They either followed Hippocrates and served the wellbeing of their patients, or they followed Plato and served the greater welfare of the State.