Operation Walk Denver
June 27th, 2008 | by Brian T. Schwartz |Last week the Denver Post published an opinion piece about the charitible organization, Operation Walk Denver:
Operation Walk Denver is an all-volunteer team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, physical therapists and other staff who surrender a week of vacation to cross time zones and language barriers, helping those crippled by bone and joint disease.
It’s not hard to imagine a charitable organization like this that operates primarily in the United States or even within Colorado. Yet, Medicaid and other government charities unfairly compete with such voluntary charities, as donors (taxpayers) go to jail for not donating. A tax credit for such donations would help level the playing field, which I write about here.
Given that physicians voluntarily donate their time and abilities to assist those in need, I can imagine that some of them would find “the right to health care” offensive — as if someone’s need entitles them to the time and skills physicians invested several hard years of their lives to acquire.
