Ben feels a strong need to give back to the community so he started offering simple teeth cleanings for $99 for adults and $69 for kids, a fraction of what other dentists charge for the same service. He saw the program as a great way to expand access to care for Arkansans.

Within weeks, Ben was told by the Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners that he was breaking the law and that his license would be revoked if he continued offering the cleanings. Arkansas prohibits licensed dental specialists like orthodontists from doing work outside of their specialty even though they are qualified to practice general dentistry. These kinds of restrictions arbitrarily limit access to care and drive up prices for consumers.

http://libertycrier.com/licensed-dentist-attacked-charging-little/#rUb2XX2tSGZHmbve.99

He should have done like Nigerian dentist do here. Defraud Medicaid out of millions.

I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,said Dr. Hendricks. Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. | Atlas Shrugged


ringing a bell?

my brother has been a doctor for years,, it takes a special intelligence to read and learn how to deal with others,,,

I think its true in all walks of life, and all professions,,,

This is where a Writ of Quo Warranto needs to be understood and employed for they are in violation of the inalienable rights granted by his creator, the right to work.

Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105 - Supreme Court 1943

Nice explanation of things, but that is the problem with novels, they have a story to tell, not problems to solve. To quit is to resign, resign life allowing the thugs to win by default.

That has nothing to do with reality, reality is to never let another to rob one of one's dreams. But to stand as a man and learn to fight, not the fight of the psychopathic statist with his mass of guns, but the fight of an intelligent man with his pen. The fight of a man that no longer bows as a slave but stands as a man. A man that does not allow any man to stand above him not endowed by his creator.

Ayn Rand's answer to the problems before man was to run and hide, seemingly her real life answer as well. My answer is to stand my ground. Why should I run from my country, a country the founders, my forefathers, died to insure I has a free home. More that 225,000 of our founders out of approximately 3 million died to insure my rights, why do I want to dishonor them?

So what, my brother-in-law has been Chief of his specialty as well as an owner of a medical corporation but it still took him almost 30 years to discover drug companies are pure evil. Doesn't mean he has stopped subscribing them, just pays a little closer attention.

So just what special intelligence does it take?

I've also had many doctors as clients, what I learned from the whole experience is that unless you were a big specialist, practicing medicine was a losing proposition, many their finances were so tight they never got the best rates. But if you wanted to make huge money, be a plastic surgeon, vanity knows no bounds.

What do you call a person who passes the Medical Board with a D score?




















Doctor.

Perhaps, being united citizens, sending that states board of review many letters, faxes and phone calls, they just might consider changing their tone.

Getting MSM involved to destroy thier rep, like they're doing for Mr Silver, would get a turn around on thier decision.

After all, they are attacking the poor and disenfranchising minorities, no?

still think you can stop the Juggernaut by jumping in front of it?
Not tired playing the Enabler yet?

Told you before,there is more to Rand than her Novels!
They are only a general approximation of her Philosophy!

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

d'Anconia to Rearden.

ITs called EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, I believe

many with High IQ have very low EQ, and live frustrated lives as a result, because they can only deal with whats in books and not with actual people and circumstances,,,

I think you'll find the ruling wasn't pushed by politicians in a fit of aristocracy, but by other dentists claiming loss of business by undercut.

It's actually illegal in the Commonwealth, there is a price regulation on businesses to prevent monopolies, eg. if you open a gas station the price of fuel is set by a state board and can only vary by a few cents, so that a super-rich person can't enter a business at a short term loss by undercutting everybody else to make the business successful, then sell it off at a net profit with an established name in an attempt to use fraud and lack of ethics to serve greed. It hurts other proprietors and the business industry in general.
Being morally criminal, basically makes it actually criminal.


Now this dentist was doing something he felt was of social conscience and community welfare. I say more power to him.

But I do think it was probably other dentists who pushed for this move to ban him from doing so, since they're the only ones really threatened by it. And as our Commonwealth legislation proves, a bunch of angry business people can make legislation happen.

Both "emotional intelligence" as an intrinsic term, and the misrepresentation of IQ as "booksmart" or in any way academically related are products of pop science and pseudoscience.

IQ is a measure of cognition, or task problem solving, eg. negotiating a visual maze can represent a contributing measure to IQ rating by comparing the time it took to accomplish under a standardized condition.
Answering a question based on academia is not a measure when out of context.
Answering an academic question and comparing the answers between two people who just read the same book (such as high school students in a standardized curriculum), is a cognitive measure.

Social skills are a cognitive measure, but again the condition of the test for comparison must be common, and a control body used.


What this means is when you were in high school and other students seemed smarter about the same material, you didn't have "emotional intelligence to their academic intelligence", they simply put more effort into that than you.
And if they were less socially developed than you in the playground, they didn't have a higher IQ than you, but only because they put less effort into this area than you at the time.

IQ is 100% about effort and condition, all it measures is cognition.
But pretty much everything involving task accomplishment is cognitively based.


Basically the premise that people with high IQs are socially awkward is pure fiction based on a stereotype featured by pop culture, like Revenge of the Nerds movies.
It's infantile in its clear wrongness. Professionals have excellent social skills as a grouping, and feature higher IQ ranges as a grouping than semi-skilled labourers, whose high incidence of mental illness by comparison is often likened to undeveloped social skills such as self governing emotions and behaviour in public.

I think the difference here is having a bunch of swearing, violent people claiming the fact only hardened criminals want to give them the time of day is really a social statement and not their behaviour, whilst all those peaceful happy professionals with their tea parties and patio barbeques lack emotional intelligence and social skills o_O
And the answer to that is clearly somebody has a low IQ there...

Good point, Mr vanaheim.

Easiest way to check his motivation is review his financial records.

Finds he was fishing for clients, pull his license and prosecute.

There is no such thing,since Intelligence is supposed to always be over Emotion!

Your Emotions are supposed to be subordinate to your Intelligence!
I don't know by what slight of Hand or so-called Mental-Health-Professionals have managed to mix the two!
But it is not surprising what the results of that are!
Just look at the "Modern" Progressive!

We're actually having a current problem in Australia with price undercutting ruining earnest business people.

Major supermarkets have used a loophole in the state fuel price regulation by buying up service station franchises and offering fuel discounts at those outlets for shoppers who spend more at their stores.

All the independent service stations can't compete with the prices of the discounted stations the supermarkets own, since the supermarkets are floating it with their large corporation turnovers. It's causing a monopoly on the fuel market, you basically need to own a large corporation to own fuel stations now, so you can discount fuel for spending at your other business, or you can't compete with consumer fuel prices.

But without small business having a chance at equitable operation, we all become slaves to a government of greedy rich people, and that's much worse than being ordered around by elected liars that at least don't really care one way or another if you get rich being honest. Rich business people, they don't the honest or anyone else getting rich, they want it all for themselves, all the power and all the money and slaves to feed them grapes.

Sir, I have a very extensive collection of Rand, I believe I am missing but one of her acknowledged published works. But that a a couple of bucks will buy me a cup of cheap coffee.

Her theoretical works have a tendency to be long and boring due to continuous laboring of a point much like her overly long speeches in the novels.

While I find her philosophy to be very interesting and something to incorporate into life, I also find the Bible very interesting, especially the new testament and something to incorporate into life, I do not consider either of them a religion that I want to dominate my life.

So why you choose to live your life in a fictitious world based on the fictitious lives of those in a novel, I choose not to. While you choose to live life in fear and loathing, I choose to tackle the same head on. While you choose to live your life based on a novel that portrays running and hiding from the problem, forsaking freedom, I choose not to. I choose to be free and stare it right in the face. If it requires pain, so be it, it is the pain of freedom. When enough people stop hiding and stand, change will start to manifest itself, and we are starting to win.

If you want to relate this reality to your beloved novel, very well. You live as John Galt, to be anonymous and hide in plain view but unlike Galt, you take no action whatsoever. I live my life more like Francisco, right out in the open and obvious, assisting them in their endeavor to bring this whole mess right down on their heads.

Oh, and do you have anything to add to the real topic?

No, it has to do with ignorance, those with intellect ignoring intelligence. Sort of like the masses but ignorant on a different plane.

Can't wait to see the spin on this.

Follow the money is the rule of thumb. Mt ex and I usually fought over money and sex- she kept charging me too much