Reciprocity wrote:
and where exactly is the slavery or involuntary servitude? Are insurance agents either slaves or indentured servants because automobile insurance is lagally mandated?
Being unable to refuse service or set your own rates is indeed servitude. If you owned a restaurant that you'd been saving up your entire life to own and the government then said that you had to serve everyone at your restaurant regardless of their ability to pay, would you not then be a servant to your customers? Their 'need' is greater than yours so they've been deemed more important.
It would be different if we grew up with a NHS type system and the doctors knew what they were getting into beforehand. They'd still be servants, but they'd be willing servants. In our case what they did was take the doctors, told them that they have an important skill to others and that their ability to perform that skill is more important than their own wealth or happiness.
I don't know about you, but I will never work in a job where I can't have a say in my own value. I despise pay scales, service time and all the other factors that go into government and union compensation. That's essentially what the Obama administration foisted on doctors.