Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care
A Mount Dora doctor posted a sign telling Obama health care supporters to go elsewhere. (click on photo for larger version)
A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.”
“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. “But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”
The doctor has every right to do so:
“… political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law. By insisting he does not quiz his patients about their politics and has not turned away patients based on their vote, the doctor is “trying to hold onto the nub of his ethical obligation,” [William] Allen [professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine] said.
After all, as Don Surber puts it,
All he is doing is protesting.
You are still allowed to do that in this country, pending the outcome of the November 2nd election.
Obama has demonized specialists for so long that an Obama supporter would be a hypocrite to see anyone other than a general practitioner.
I had a medical appointment with a specialist the week after ObamaCare was passed by Congress. She is considering retirement, since there is no way she can keep her practice with the amounts ObamaCare would pay for her professional services.
How’s that for “trying to hold onto the nub of his ethical obligation,” Professor Allen?
I checked this doctors ratings out on a couple of different websites – they are all bad ratings. I wouldn’t go to this loser no matter who I voted for.
He is a poster boy for why we need health care reform in this country. Medicine and Wall Street now seem to have joined hands in idolizing greed and whatever makes me rich is good, no matter what happens to society at large. This Doctor is a disgrace to his profession. He should lose his license – then run as a Repugnant politician and fail at that too – maybe the militia movement would take him.
We have gone back to the segregationist era in America. I didn’t think inclusion, acceptance of differences, or democracy would be such a short lived period of time. If you don’t vote like me, think like me, or look like me you don’t count? As a high school teacher I expect this type of derisive reasoning and rationalizing from my students, but from a doctor who has pledged to abide by an oath of inclusion? It boggles the mind.
The point is not this doctor’s response to the White House’s health reform–it is the reform itself.
How is one to respond to a plan that seeks to drive specialists out of business with mindless reimbursement cuts and force doctors to refuse Medicare recipients?
The plan has been sold with a ceaseless avalanche of lying–if you like your doctor, you can keep him; if you like your insurance, you can keep it; Medicare will not be cut, but strengthened; There are no death panels…etc, etc.
The truth is the plan does the exact opposite. Incremental cuts in Medicare are scheduled in home care, dialysis, diagnostic scans (vital to cancer patients), hospice care. The money saved will not be used to shore up Medicare, but to finance a new program.
That didn’t stop the plan’s advocates from claiming Medicare cuts could do both simultaneously.
One of the main tactics of these hustlers is if you’re not for this plan you’re a racist.
If Americans are stupid enough to believe all this, they’re getting the government they deserve.
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The doctors has the right to do whatever he wants in his office , even posting the paper about Obamacare.
This guy has guts. Certainly, he is a GOP because democrats are not so honest as to post something like this. In my opinion, Obamacare sucks and is very bad for the patients.