You have my sympathy. The guy was obviously an a-hole of the first water, to hear you tell it.
As odious as the clod was, I don't understand how he wasn't right about the source of your wages. You work for the government if you work for the police service and they are subsequently funded by government. I fail to see how your check is not drawn out of taxation. (Not that this in any way entitles such obtuse boors to harangue and abuse you!)
Though you may not have intendended it, you did state an essential truth about public medicine though: it does politicize the medical profession and the provision of medical care. People do reserve the right to opine on treatments of others for which they are paying and do.
Ah, the unwashed heathens
As odious as the clod was, I don't understand how he wasn't right about the source of your wages. You work for the government if you work for the police service and they are subsequently funded by government. I fail to see how your check is not drawn out of taxation. (Not that this in any way entitles such obtuse boors to harangue and abuse you!)
Though you may not have intendended it, you did state an essential truth about public medicine though: it does politicize the medical profession and the provision of medical care. People do reserve the right to opine on treatments of others for which they are paying and do.