>>17758072The Constitution starts with "We the People....".
An oath to it is an oath to the general population.
The US Army doesn't serve some abstract concept but real material things and persons.
Soldiers don't have to sign up to the military already knowing how to drive a tank or fly a jet. The military provides training.
This goes for both volunteer militaries and conscript militaries.
If we treated being a soldier like a doctor, fitting with your narrative, then you'd already have to have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in piloting lessons, to ever sign up for the Air Force and fly a plane. No one would ever do that, obviously.
Instead, the State works to facilitate that training and offload the costs onto itself and the money it steals from the population. No one joining up as a tanker takes on the economic risk of having to learn how to drive and service a tank themselves in the collegiate or trade school education market.
There's no reason to think that you couldn't have a similar scenario in any government run healthcare system.
Where the State facilitates education in a manner that minimizes the expense and economic risk the student experiences in training.
The reality is that being a doctor has a far more expensive barrier to entry than is necessary for how materially cheap it is to be educated in. A fighter pilot requires multi-million dollar planes to learn on, a doctor requires cadavers and practice patients, which are basically free.
If people don't trust the military or police to keep them safe, they can pay for private security companies.
I don't see any reason to think that this would go away.