MOUNT DORA — 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 sign reads: "If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."
Naturally the Lefties are all in a snit. To quote a Democratic Congresscrittert:
"I'm disgusted," he (Grayson) said. "Maybe he thinks the Hippocratic Oath says, ‘Do no good.' If this is the face of the right wing in America, it's the face of cruelty. … Why don't they change the name of the Republican Party to the Sore Loser Party?"
Doesn't seem to enter into Grayson's mind that the Doctor has the absolute right to chose who to treat or not treat.
And Grayson isn't smart enough to understand that at age 56 the Doctor will probably just hang it up in a few years.
What happens then? The patients fo elsewhere.
Of course if elesewhere doesn't have any doctors....
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However, if you’re pissing pure American tea—if your urine is filtered through patriotic, anti-socialist kidneys, the doctor will see you now. Even if he’ll be paid for his services via a socialist scheme like Medicare. Freedom isn’t free, you know.
ReplyDeleteIs there something you don't understand about the doc's practice being a private business?
ReplyDeleteHe appears to be filtering by politics.
The Mayo Clinic on Glendale, AZ, does so by money...
"The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix"
And then there is Walgreens and Bartells in Washington giving up on Medicaid....
You forgot to include this information in your excerpt from the article about him, I wonder why?
ReplyDeleteCassell, whose lawyer wife, Leslie Campione, has declared herself a Republican candidate for Lake County commissioner
Gee, he couldn't be grandstanding for the sake of his wife's candidacy, could he?
Nah, only hateful lefties pull that kind of nonsensical behavior.
Here's a link to the article, BTW:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,5593120.story
So, let's see one pissed off doctor, along with a clinic that treats a fraction of the total Medicare patients in the country, along with a couple of chain drug stores in one state about whose Medicare cliental the same claim can be made, and this is suppose to herald the failure of Obamiecare.
Sounds about right to me............
DA, is there something about the doctor having the right to do what he wants that you don't understand?
ReplyDeleteAnd that's Medicaid, not Medicare. You do understand the difference, don't you? Well?
BTW - See that thingee in red labeled "Link?" Click on that and you will be taken to the source article.
Something about this Internet thing you don't understand?