Dr. Jack Cassell, a Florida urologist, is no fan of Obamacare. So he put a sign in his window telling Obama voters to find care somewhere else. Good for him!
Orlando Sentinel: “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.”
Estella Chatman, 67, of Eustis, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat who riled Republicans last year when he characterized the GOP’s idea of health care as, “If you get sick, America … Die quickly.”
Chatman said she heard about the sign from a friend referred to Cassell after his physician recently died. She said her friend did not want to speak to a reporter but was dismayed by Cassell’s sign.
Alan Grayson ought to have a field day with this one, but he’ll just make a fool of himself like he always does. Cassell said he won’t turn anyone away, beyond that, he has no obligation to take on new patients. Expect to see more of this, or doctors just quitting altogether.
Via memeorandum
So, the Urologist is saying, “piss on it,” to Dr Obamawannawallet?
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Well, good for him if you think doctors are like taxicab drivers – just in business for a buck, and free to be as obnoxious as they choose. If you think entering the medical profession entails an obligation of commitment to others’ needs – even as minimal as not acting like a jerk, and not deliberately driving away patients who don’t happen to vote for your chosen candidates – then there’s a problem with this.
Aside from the fact that nobody has “changed” these patients’ care but the doctor himself, and aside from the fact that there’s something wrong at bottom with a doctor who doesn’t want to see more people get access to healthcare, this doctor has made himself and his personal desires the center of his care for his patients – to the point that he will take it on himself to “change” their care to punish them for making choices that he personally doesn’t approve of. He’s not just a jerk – he’s only a jerk. He stopped being a doctor when he started being a jerk.
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Spoken like a true lefty, bovine fecal matter spraying from both sides of your face,braying like an ass about misconceptions of rights and freedom.
Obviously educated, yet dumber than a hundred head of sheep.
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Spoken like a true wingnut. Incapable of commenting without foul personal attacks.
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Kevin:
Get real.
This is still a free country. The Dr. has NONE of the obligations you mention. NONE.
In fact, the Dr. enjoys the SAME freedoms as YOU do.
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Yes, he does have obligations. As a doctor he does have obligations the rest of us don’t have.
Is this the same Dr Jack Cassell who got his MD in Grenada?
Is this the same Dr Jack Cassell who, early on, tried to organize an HMO that would be perfect for the Swiss Style National Health Care?
Guess he succumbed to the big money addiction.
Now he subscribes to the republican health care plan… die quickly.
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I’m glad the doctor posted this. In fact I wish all Republicans who felt this way would let me know. I have far more choices than I need. Anything to help me narrow down my picks helps.
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[...] The Lonely Conservative [...]
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And those who don’t have the money can just die.
The republican health care plan.
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This one got people going, didn’t it
Same at my place. One of my commenters tells me Dr. Cassall has a poor ranking among urologists. He’s tops in my book for protesting this unconstitutional legislation. Of course, those who think Cassall’s position is terrible, don’t know anything about the Constitution:-)
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Is his ranking based on services or political opinion?
Wanting to provide all with healthcare is a humanitarian move. Ruining it for 90% to help 10% ISN’T.
It would be cheaper to DIRECTLY pay for those who cannot afford healthcare with or without insurance.
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In every other industrialized country in the world National Health care makes health care more affordable for everyone. The most expensive, the Swiss system, costs 12% of GDP. Ours cost 17.5% and is heading for 20%. And the Swiss system covers everybody, ours leaves millions unprotected. The uninsured are overwhelmingly the working poor.
Even among the insured most bankruptcies involve medical bills. That doesn’t happen in industrialized countries with national health care.
Unless he’s been spewing politics in his practice, his ranking must be based on medical performance.
If you think it would be better to just pay directly, then do it. Your side had 15 years after Hillary’s plan went down. Did you think the problems all magically went away? You had 15 years and did nothing. Where were you then?
The reality is, the republicans don’t want to provide anything for anybody. The republican plan is, die quickly.
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“Cassell said he won’t turn anyone away, beyond that, he has no obligation to take on new patients. Expect to see more of this, or doctors just quitting altogether.”
As long as doctors make more money than 95%+ of the population you won’t see doctors quitting. Until they can make more money as factory workers or teachers you won’t see doctors quitting.
Remember, Joe the Plumber’s $250K/yr was phony. He would more likely make about $50K/yr. Of course, he would have to actually have a license to do that. I live in the same country he does, so I know he needs a license to be a plumber.
And by putting up that sign he is discouraging patients, and giving patients reason to doubt his willingness to give quality care to those who disagree with him.
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That should have been same county.
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And I guess 0bama’s “Spread the wealth around” comment was a lie, too……despite what my lying eyes say and my lying eyes heard.
Funny how America hating radicals and racists like William Ayers and Jerimiah Wright are supposedly off-limits because 0bama won in ’08, but Joe the Plumber can be revisited any old time as a prime example of an unreliable narrarator.
Joe the Plumber could’ve been a cross-burning, puppy-drowning, cousin-marrying grand dragon of the KKK, it still wouldn’t change the fact that 0bama HIMSELF let slip the fact he was in favor of redistributive economic policies a-la Evo Morales or tHugo Chavez.
Might as well go back to the 0rganizing for America page….you’re showing yourself to be a semi-literate troll that’s as tedious as all hell.
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Agreed. What do you say, should I be like Charles Johnson and ban him?
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I think the Charles Johnson method is to agree with them for 3 or 4 years at a time before abruptly deciding to play all sorts of petty guilt-by-association and 6-degrees-of-seperation games then abruptly banning anybody who doesn’t agree with you before you’re left trying to hawk your old Spider man comics online….
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