Florida Doctor Tells Obama Supporters to Get Lost …Update: Florida NAACP Official Behind Complaint
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:06 AM
The doctor will see you now (if you are not an Obama supporter)…
Florida libs are upset with Dr. Jack Cassell for posting an anti-Obama sign in his window. The sign asks patients who voted for Obama to go elsewhere.
The Florida Sentinel reported:
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.”
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.
“He’s going to find another doctor,” she said.
Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.
Allen said doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, but 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,” Allen said.
“But this is pushing the limit,” he said.
Cassell, who has practiced medicine in GOP-dominated Lake County since 1988, said he doesn’t quiz his patients about their politics, but he also won’t hide his disdain for the bill Obama signed and the lawmakers who passed it.
UPDATE: Here’s the rest of the story….
Just thought you might want to know this – I just added the following comment to your post:“What the Orlando Sentinel & local TV stations aren’t telling you all is that the woman who complained to Rep. Alan Grayson, Estella Chatman, is President of the Tri-City Branch NAACP.
http://www.flcourts.org/gen_public/family/diversity/bin/FairnessDiversityReport.pdf
Now is the media hoopla making a little more sense?
Of course Ms. Chatman has constant contact with hate-mongerer, race-baiter, Obama-lovin’ Grayson. Perfect opportunity for the lapdog media to shoot the story about the poor, oppressed Obama voters being shunted out of medical care because of the heartless Republican doctor.
Perfect story line, for “journalists” who print fiction.”
Hat Tip essequamvideri
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Andreas K. commented:
Pushing the limit?
Awwww, you’ve seen nothing yet.
It’s going to get a lot worse from here. Soon it’ll be like in the UK with their top-heavy, expensive NHS. Oh yeah baby.
And then comes the tax hike.
Curious what song the Obamatrons will sing when the government starts taxing them more and more so that it can finance this boondoggle.
ThinkingMan commented:
Hypocritic oath?
howdareyouaskformyname commented:
This is only the beginning. The country has been ripped asunder in a way that hasn’t happened since the civil war. There will be a lot of resistance and it will be of every type at every level. Leftists should no longer expect to be allowed into the company of decent people. They have overstepped their bounds and they need to be confronted constantly and without reprieve.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This is a blatantly unconsitutional law, they are the ones pushing the limit! This Doctor has a private practice, that is being systematically destroyed by the communists parading around as US Congressmen, and we have an Indonesian President, and they have the gull to say “pushing the limit.” If people don’t like the way the doctor feels, they are free to see another doctor. I perfectly understand his anger. We have a fraud as a President. He takes an oath unconstitutionally, he signs laws unconstitutionally, he said he will abide by the Constitution and doesn’t, but the American doctor is, “pushing the limit?”
Zipity commented:
I propose an income tax surcharge of 50% on all the Democrats who voted for Obama. After all, they’ve been telling us for years we are under-taxed, and that it’s patriotic to want to pay more in taxes. We should assist them to that end.
Skandia commented:
Good. We’re not slaves, yet. Do business with your friends, shun your enemies.
Democrats, and other Obama supporters need to pay a price for their foolishness.
carder commented:
Correction, Jim. It’s “Orlando ” Sentinel, not Florida Sentinel.
Jean commented:
This man is a true Patriot.
manateespirit commented:
What the Dems refuse to take into consideration or have overlooked is the programs they put in place ARE RUN BY PEOPLE. PEOPLE, NOT OBAMATRONS. I believe this doctor should be able to tell people how he feels. It’s HIS practice (for now, anyway), HE was the one who spent years in school training to be a doctor, and the government comes in to tell him how to run his business?
I applaud him. I wish more doctors would share their displeasure.
neomom commented:
No shoes, no shirt, no common sense, no service. I love it. The first bloodless civil war has begun. Wait till they start doing layoffs by using Obama bumper stickers. #2, I have no Idea what oath you speak of. Doctors have the right to be hypocrites just like the rest of us. There is this oath called the Hippocratic oath but it does not apply in this case.
ThinkingMan commented:
I think it’s absolutely outrageous that the government thinks it can require us to have health insurance. What’s next? A requirement that we have automobile insurance?
Kenny Solomon commented:
Change we can believe in !
Git-r-done, Doc !
KLS
Joanne commented:
Obama’s government doesn’t seem to respect the oath doctor’s take to do no harm, in obligating them to perform abortions in the new legislation regardless of their ethical or moral beliefs, so what do they have to say about that?
Opus #6 commented:
Libs think they can strong arm America and steal people’s livelihood.
If healthcare is a right, then this doctor is a slave.
Don’t be surprise if Americans fight the slavery.
ThinkingMan commented:
So true, Opus! If voting is a right, then voting officials are slaves! If free speech is a right, then bloggers are slaves!
FREE JIM HOFT!
neomom commented:
Here comes Joanne with the common sense. You go girl.
denise commented:
This was on the FRONT page of the Orlando Sentinel today. I love it!!! I thought ‘ good for him!’
AuntieMadder commented:
Allen said doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, but political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law.
I didn’t know this and, frankly, it seems wrong to me. I mean, doctors should be required to help anyone in a life-threatening situation, and most of them do, whether at their office, in the mall, on the freeway, aboard airplanes, etc. But they should be “reserved the right to refuse service” as they see fit. Otoh, I suppose no one is reserved that right anymore. It’s a shame, if you ask me.
Chisum commented:
THE SHAPE OF OBAMACARE TO COME
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/04/02/the-shape-of-obamacare-to-come.php
Militant Conservative commented:
His practice will probably grow and become more finacially stable due to the fact of getting rid of deadbeat democrats wanting free stuff. Conservative pay thier debts.
neomom
April 2nd, 2010 | 8:25 am | #10
Just in case you missed the post. AFLAC insurance co here in Columbus Ga. (home office). They did just that they copied down the company parking permits of employees that had Obama bumper stickers. Layoffs are in the works and these will be first. Don’t know what your color/race/gender or proclivity was we just
saw your car. Welcome to capitalism 101, dunces.
Maybe we’ll go back to fee for service direct with the doctors. Screw Obamacare. powder is dry.
Mrs. X commented:
Rush suggested on his show the day this bill was signed that people were showing up at their doctor’s office for free 0bamacare. This doctor just turned the tables the other way. HAHA!
Medicine in general is being over-run by laws…by our government. This bill was one more HUGE interference in the process.
reliapundit commented:
if obama and the left get their way, then doctors will become slaves to the sate as they are in cuba.
BurmaShave commented:
I quit my doctor when he urged me to get rid of my gun.
Patman commented:
I can’t wait till restaurants and bars start hanging these notices on their front doors.
They will read:
“if you like salt and freedom, please come in.
If you voted for government issued Soylent Green then please move down to the line behind the government nutritional dispensary”.
Cindermutha commented:
There’s a poll there on the front page… and 82% said good for him
StrangernFiction commented:
If you read the comment thread linked off drudge you will quickly realize that this man just made a terrific business decision, that is if the left doesn’t……well we won’t go there until they do.
AuntieMadder commented:
ThinkingMan
April 2nd, 2010 | 8:13 am | #2
Stinking Man, here’s the hippocratic oath. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=20909 Nowhere does it state that doctors are required to treat those who’ve labored against them.
Oh, and about your comment #11, once again you prove you’re an idiot.
Firstly, states, not the Fed, require car owners to carry liability insurance on their cars. Never before have citizens been required by the Fed govt to purchase any service or product.
Secondly, it’s the car, not the driver, that must be insured for any damage caused by that car. Full coverage on the car is optional (although most lein holders, not the Fed, require it). Those who don’t own cars aren’t required to carry auto liability insurance, even if they are licensed drivers, and even if they drive someone else’s car. Therefore, not every licensed driver, and certainly not every citizen, is required to purchase auto liability insurance.
Thirdly, and most importantly, those who don’t want to carry auto liability insurance as well as those who can’t afford to carry auto liability insurance can choose not to own a car. Owning a car is a privilege and no one is forced by law to own one, therefore no one is forced by law to carry auto liability insurance unless they own a car.
(Anyone who can’t afford to carry liability insurance on a car would be wise to opt out of owning a car as they sure as hell can’t afford to pay for any damage that may be caused by a car. For that matter, they most likely can’t afford gas, maintenance and repairs, either. So, bottom line is that anyone who can’t afford to carry liability insurance on a car can’t afford to own a car. That sucks but at least they won’t be fined for not carrying auto liability insurance on cars they don’t own.)
Left Coast Conservative commented:
We do not have the right free use of intellectual property. Do suggest otherwise is to support slavery.
Finncrisp commented:
It is past time for all Americans to take principled stands for our freedom. As they say therew are consequences….
Good object lesson – Libs and marxists would throw us under the bus in a heartbeat.
Finncrisp commented:
It is past time for all Americans to take principled stands for our freedom. As they say there are consequences….
Good object lesson – Libs and marxists would throw us under the bus in a heartbeat.
AuntieMadder commented:
Finncrisp
April 2nd, 2010 | 9:04 am | #31
Good object lesson – Libs and marxists would throw us under the bus in a heartbeat.
Are you kidding? They long for the day that they throw us all under the bus. It’s their dream; it’s their goal.
Steve commented:
Seems to me he’s just a prophet and starting a trend that will be all too familiar once the rules start hitting healthcare related organizations & the “board” starts deciding, oh, I’m sorry, ‘suggesting’ who gets what procedure or drug.
Darwin Akbar commented:
Ayn Rand and John Galt would be proud of Dr. Cassell. No man has a “right” to his services if he chooses not to provide it. Why should he provide a service – any service – to those who support an administration who have demonized his profession and would try to control their income or make them defacto government employees?
More power to him! May he be the first of millions!
Chris commented:
“A requirement that we have automobile insurance?”
When the government requires us to maintain insurance to handle every oil change, that comment might seem less stupid.
As it is, it just shows that you’re a thief who needs the government to rob from people because you’re too much of a coward to do it yourself.
kate commented:
He’s a patriot. Grayson, not so much.
Indy Voter commented:
I bet this doctor will be audited…just a hunch.
Babsy commented:
#29: dims are all about slavery…
down with dems commented:
Beautiful. Thank you, doctor.
If you think THIS sign is outrageous, just wait until all the doctors that are left (after the mass exodus from the profession) refuse to accept Medicaid/Medicare patients because of the lowered reimbursements.
Obama voters made a choice, they voted for change, and they have to live in the changed world they helped create.
down with dems commented:
ThinkingManNo Gravatar
April 2nd, 2010 | 8:25 am | #11
I think it’s absolutely outrageous that the government thinks it can require us to have health insurance. What’s next? A requirement that we have automobile insurance?
———–
Your sarcasm is wasted here, because your logic is flawed. You can choose not to own or drive a car, and instead take public transportation, ride a bike, or walk (wow, two of those would make this country a lot healthier, wouldn’t they?).
You cannot control the conception that leads to your existence, and you are saddled with the burden of health insurance solely for being alive. Your choice becomes: end your life, or buy health insurance, or pay the fine. Too bad you weren’t aborted, right?
When you are born, you are not mandated to purchase auto insurance simply because you live and breathe. You are, however, mandated to purchase health insurance. AND, if the mandate stands, there is no limit to what the government can require you to purchase, for any reason they deem necessary.
JKB commented:
AuntieMadder,
Re your #28, I applaud your efforts to do away with this red herring of auto insurance. However, you make a couple of errors in your argument.
First off, owning a car is not a privilege, it is a choice. One may own a car and operate it without registration, operator license or liability insurance upon your own property or the private property of another person or corporation with permission. If you choose to take that vehicle onto the public highway or byway, then for safety reasons, you must demonstrate a basic level of operating skill and knowledge of traffic rules, your license may be revoked if you demonstrate a tendency to be a greater danger to other drivers and you must procure through insurance the financial means to cover any liability the operation of the vehicle might inadvertently incur. Let’s put aside the reality that government has imposed a periodic fee to renew your license and also used license renewal denial as a punitive measure for non-vehicle related fee extraction such as library fines. Any good idea will be exploited to extract money above and beyond the good part of the idea.
The only comparable healthcare insurance mandate would be, if one wanted to mingle with the public, to require the carryinng medical liability insurance that covered liability incurred by exposing others to infectious agents such as colds, flu, HIV, herpes, hepatitis, TB, etc.
Or we could go the other way and require all individuals who drive, ride or otherwise use autos to carry full liability, comprehensive, collision, towing, etc., as well as, coverage that paid for routine maintenance, detailing, gas treatments, etc.
Andreas K. commented:
The oath basically states that you must not do harm. Basically, a doctor performing abortions is violating this oath. Massively violating it.
Funny how nobody complains about it in those thousands of cases every year.
But here is an “evil” right winger, and, of course, he must be bashed back in line. Heil Obama.
Finncrisp
April 2nd, 2010 | 9:04 am | #31
Good object lesson – Libs and marxists would throw us under the bus in a heartbeat.
You’re lucky if you end up under the bus with the red fascists.
See, in Europe, certain fats have been banned from being used for cooking, because, well, some may be involved in causing cancer (i.e. may increase your risk of getting cancer.) Big Brother in Brussels knows what’s best for us.
And ignore the fact that everyone would eventually get cancer anyway. Most people just don’t live long enough to get it.
They’re also banning smoking left and right because of “passive smoking”, which has even less scientific credibility than “global warming”. There is simply no evidence that “passive smoking” does anything other than stink up the room. Absolutely no evidence. Just a few forged studies which make no sense at all.
olm commented:
Good for this doctor. I will send him a check if he runs into financial difficulty. No kidding.
A stand has to be taken somewhere and everything about this obamacare is wrong. I really do not see how an urologist telling pts to go elsewhere is unethical.
If this guy gets auditted or has legal problems let us know, i’ll donate.
JKB commented:
As to the doctor’s notice, I would think that Obamabots would welcome such disclosure. From their rhetoric, do they really want a doctor so unenlightened as to not support Obama handling them when they are all wee-wee’d up?
czekmark commented:
Well, all I can say is I don’t want to be associated with any Obamabots either. So kudos to the good doctor.
Sandy commented:
According to a poll done in the Orlando Sentinel over 84% approve of the Doctor’s actions. God bless Dr. Cassell at least someone has the courage to take a stand. Hear that — the rest of you go along to get along weasels?
Patricia commented:
This physician is an American HERO! I hope we continue to see this throughout our society in any number of ways. I want to put my home on the market but will not work w/ anyone who voted for Obama. That is MY choice. Why should I enrich anyone who assisted and supported the destruction of the once greatest country on God’s green earth? Discriminatory? You BET is it!
DavidD commented:
Now that’s teh funny.
Radegunda commented:
“ThinkingMan” is obviously not thinking very much. I doubt it’s a man either.
If UnthinkingMan is so keen on living in a place where the government dictates exactly how doctors do their work and dictates which medical treatments we citizens have a “right” to receive–and which ones we may not have–then he/it should have the decency to move to a place where that’s done already.
Lots of people moved here to get AWAY from the massive government intrusion and coercion that they suffered in their native countries. They are the most disturbed by what’s going on here.
Sandy commented:
down with dems — Unfortunately if Obama succeeds in forcing everyone to buy Health Insurance then he can force people do buy anything. You would no longer be able to drive the car of your choice but would be mandated to buy the one the Govt chooses for you. This is a biggy because it would allow the Govt total control over everything we do. I pray the Attorneys General succeed in stopping this.
Tricia commented:
I almost want to move there just so this guy can be my doctor. And to say he’s on the verge of violating any kind of ethical obligation is ridiculous. He owns a private practice, and he certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on urologic services. If people don’t like his views, they’re free to get care somewhere else. THAT is called living in a free country. But I guess we’re forgetting what that actually feels like.
~Trish
Sandy commented:
Patricia — Dr. Cassell is Paul Revere in a white coat. May this be just the beginning.
Radegunda commented:
Andreas K, you Europeans are late to the party on the smoking bans. They are quite far advanced here. I think the last time a saw someone smoking a cigarette was in Europe.
The “trans-fat” bans are also beginning in particular areas, as a local or state matter.
But it’s probably more maddening when this kind of restriction is imposed on your formerly sovereign countries by the Brussels diktocrats.
Sandy commented:
What I’m praying for is that on April 21st when top corporations are being forced to appear before a House Committee by Nostrils Waxman–they too stand firm that this Healthcare bill will cost them too much money and a great number of jobs.
Deanna commented:
I know two doctors who had considered early retirement as not an option. They wanted to practice into their 70s. But both have now decided to retire in their late 50s. They simply cannot afford the insurance and the financial losses from Medicare and Medicaid patients, and fear this law will only make it worse. Another emergency services doctor I just went to has already left private practice for the same reasons.
Phillip commented:
That is one Urologist with big stones.
mmm commented:
True story from liberal Calif. of some guy coming up to a lady at a gas station asking if she could give him some gas. The first thing this lady said was “did you vote for Obama?”, he replied “yes”. Her reply was “no”.
EsseQuamVideri commented:
What the Orlando Sentinel & local TV stations aren’t telling you all is that the woman who complained to Rep. Alan Grayson, Estella Chatman, is President of the Tri-City Branch NAACP.
http://www.flcourts.org/gen_public/family/diversity/bin/FairnessDiversityReport.pdf
Now is the media hoopla making a little more sense?
Of course Ms. Chatman has constant contact with hate-mongerer, race-baiter, Obama-lovin’ Grayson. Perfect opportunity for the lapdog media to shoot the story about the poor, oppressed Obama voters being shunted out of medical care because of the heartless Republican doctor.
Perfect story line, for “journalists” who print fiction.
bigkahuna commented:
Lets hope he gets a lot more business from free Americans.
I just hope all the employeres who lay off people…hopefully libocrats first, let them know the reason their jobs are toast..
High taxes, Higher Insurance Premiums, more regulations, and Dummycrats! Let them know elections and erections for liberals have consequences!
plugging_along commented:
Estella Chatman – past president of Tri-Cities naacp, noted for “struggles in civil rights”
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-07-14/news/9107150374_1_estella-chatman-naacp
still listed under filings with state of florida for naacp on google
http://ccfcorp.dos.state.fl.us/scripts/corofflis.exe?action=OFFFWD&action_dir=F&princ_comp_name=CHATMANELLIOTTD&names_cor_number=N16566&princ_type=P&cor_web_princ_seq=0001
involved in fairness and diversity court report
http://www.flcourts.org/gen_public/family/diversity/bin/FairnessDiversityReport.pdf
definately would have no agenda here, i guess
Carbon Monoxide commented:
ThinkingMan:
“I think it’s absolutely outrageous that the government thinks it can require us to have health insurance. What’s next? A requirement that we have automobile insurance?”
If only the government would mimic what they do for automobile insurance: require the 17 million young, healthy people who can afford insurance to have it from private insurance that they can buy in any state. The rates would become cheaper because healthy people would be put into the pool with sick old farts like me and realy competitions would soon have lizards and cave men selling health insurance on TV. High risk people would be put into the high risk insurance pool.
Instead, Obama created socialized medicine.
Luke James commented:
Do these angry anti-tax people really make over $200K-$250K a year? I really don’t think people making that kind of money are trolling comment sections on the internet. So do this lower-middle to middle-upper class people not realize that they have had a tax cut under Obama? And that the only people whose taxes are to go up are the top 2% of the country who are now paying less taxes than ever before even during a two wars, a massive recession, and a national crisis? All of this screaming from the bottom is for the protection of the very very very top, and this angry mob truly thinks they are sticking up for themselves. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Robh693 commented:
HuffPo posted the orignal article and asked their readers to vote against the doc in an opinion poll attached to the article. Support for the Doc is off the charts!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,5593120.story
wanumba commented:
A guy spent what about 12 years of his life after graduating high in university, taking rigorous courses since FRESHMAN HIGH SCHOOL and busting for good grades to make the for pre-med and medical school, plus on-the-job internship training BEFORE being CERTIFIED and ALLOWED by law to practice medicine. Meanwhile, chemistry and biology majors spent years studying hard, learning for advanced degrees in order to work in laboratories to develop new drugs. YEARS of hard training BEFORE being allowed to
WORK in the field.
And a bunch of people who were satisfied with Bs and a C in easy courses, picked “soft majors,” played video games, and mall shopped and sat around getting pedicures think they have a “right” to medical care?
Without trained doctors and nurses and drug developers, medical device engineers and all the HARD majors that MOST people AVOID, there IS NO medical care.
A man or woman racks up ten years of DEBT becoming doctors when other people developed their make-up skills and it’s not “fair.”
Opus #6 commented:
Luke James #64
Take your tired class warfare rhetoric and get lost.
Or better yet, to go Europe where that kind of thing sells.
wanumba commented:
Luke James
April 2nd, 2010 | 12:35 pm | #64
So do this lower-middle to middle-upper class people not realize that they have had a tax cut under Obama?
……….
There isn’t a cut anywhere. The bill is nothing but 1,000 new taxes on every single thing and service in the market that people get in this country.
You that easy to fool – move taxes from one side to the other and call them by a different name?
At the end of the Obama Democrat day, you are going to have way less money in your pocket, and less choice in healthcare, less choice at the auto dealerships, less choice at the supermarket, less jobs to find as producers go out of business. And states are in budget crisis from spending too much, BEFORE all this hit, so ALL state taxes are going up and new ones are being added.
Gas is going up, electricity is going up, heating oil up, all because of MORE TAXES, not the actual costs of the products.
Tax, tax, tax, tax ,tax – what’s this pathetic nonsense about a “tax cut?”
Hate the Left commented:
Good. I’d like to see more doctors voice their opinion like this. What are they supposed to do, sit mute and expressionless like the Supreme Court at the State of the Union? Doctors are being shafted left and right in this POS ‘healthcare’ law, which is really just a power grab and a redistribution of wealth. In the end, it’s the doctors and the middle class who will suffer – and the thousands of folks who work for the health insurance companies that will be going belly-up soon. BHS and his crew are all SOCIALISTS! This is not my America.
Bob commented:
The story, the article and the comments constitutes a perfect trifecta of involuntary hilarity.
Palin/Beck 2013! Woohoo!
Listen up commented:
Way to go Doctor! If I lived near you I would make you my doctor. Stand up America and fight back with your free speech while you still have it to use. Hurray for this brave doctor!
Ian commented:
Wow! The right wingnut teabaggers are out in force today! Please keep listening to the uneducated college dropouts Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck. It is really great for laughs to read these asinine comments. You let Bush start an illegal war based on lies then destroy the economy while he was at it without a word. Idiots, you have your heads stuck so far up the elephant you turn a blind eye while corporations (big pharma, wall street) rape America. Protect those lobbyist Mr. Teabagger, your doing a great job.
AuntieMadder commented:
JKB
April 2nd, 2010 | 9:51 am | #41
Driving is also a privilege, not a right. That’s the error in your argument. My argument stands on its own, although it might have been lacking what down_with_dems posted at #44, which, whether intentionally or not, strengthens it.
AuntieMadder commented:
Ian
April 2nd, 2010 | 4:36 pm | #74
Yeah? If we’re so funny, where were you last month? And the month before that? We didn’t suddenly become funny to you. In fact, we’re not amusing you at all. You’re here day in and day out for the last few days or week because suddenly you feel the threat we are to your Utopian dreams. And you’re right to feel that way because it’s true.
Insult us and pretend to laugh all you want. We know better. Idiot.
Chisum commented:
Ian,
We’re the uneducated ones making asinine comments? At least I know the proper usage of your versus you’re.
“You let Bush start an illegal war based on lies then destroy the economy while he was at it without a word.”
Here you go, cupcake. Educate yourself.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/26/round-4-wehner-vs-corn-on-bush-and-the-iraq-war/
Costa commented:
Way to Dr.! I would go to you anyday and if my commercial insurance paid, good, if not, you would be paid in full in cash.
Many blessings are wished for you!
clyde commented:
there are currently some ships with doctors and medical facilities that travel to third world coutries delivering services.this idea could be used by medical groups that want to be free from govt. mandates and ambulence chasing lawyers by picking up passenger patients moving to international waters,providing thier services as prepaid deals as part of a caribean cruise.
wanumba commented:
Ian
April 2nd, 2010 | 4:36 pm | #74
Wow! The right wingnut teabaggers are out in force today! Please keep listening to the uneducated college dropouts
…………
Smart enough to not waste their good money on any empty Harvard degree which costs $50,000 a year and the achool has the nerve to cheat you with teaching assistants instead of professors, so you graduate with a pretty diploma and say ignorant things like “57 states” and can’t pronounce “corpsman” properly, even after many attempts, clueless.
One of the worst things ever to degrade this nation is the college graduation ceremonies where they announce to all the graduates that “YOU are the LEADERS!!”
Leaders, huh? That jerk who drank himself stupid every Friday night right there and the loser who smashed all his dorm furniture into splinters just because, Freshman year? And the guy who sold drugs out of his room and got mummy and daddy to buy him a new car after he crashed the old one into the dumpster at 3 am? How about the fried slackers who pressed on everyone a petition to the college to keep the cool professor who has ‘shrooms at his little parties? Or the activitists who think sitting at table with a couple of hand-made posters “raising awareness” about global sustainability actually does something for actual poor people in actual Third World countries?
The blue collar workers of America who didn’t go to any college have done more for the Third World than any college grad with a degree in “development.” They’ve built roads, strung electrical lines, grew the crop surpluses so starving people could eat for humanitarian aid, transported the crops, medicines and supplies by truck, train, boat and plane.
Too many colleges these days add nothing to a person’s development but hubris.
wanumba commented:
clyde
April 2nd, 2010 | 7:46 pm | #82
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That’s a TERRIFIC idea – way way better than flying to India as the NHS-stricken Brits do now to get medical services their free national health care services won’t give them.
The cruise line industry must be suffering, it’d revive their business – a two-fer.
bg commented:
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wanumba 8:21 pm #83
re: [Leaders, huh?]
ht pm in a previous post..
“You Picked a Fine Time to Lead Us, Barack”
ps: left a great new post for you here (#105)..
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Hmmmmm commented:
American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics.
Section 9.012:
“Under no circumstances should physicians allow their differences with patients or their families about political matters to interfere with the delivery of high-quality professional care.”
I’m just sayin’…
John Skookum commented:
Good for Dr. Cassell. More of this is on the way, trust me. We doctors are boiling mad and intend to sabotage Obamacare. Obama will have to either enslave us or import Turd World witch doctors to make his program stick.
Hmmmmm commented:
Mad enough to violate the AMA code of ethics? Boy, I’m surprised that someone as intelligent as you doctors has such a hard time accepting that you live in a majority rule republic, and you aren’t always going to get your way. But I guess if you are comfortable disregarding the code of ethics, you don’t think you need to follow the Constitution either.
wanumba commented:
Boy, I’m surprised that someone as intelligent as you doctors has such a hard time accepting that you live in a majority rule republic, and you aren’t always going to get your way
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The Constitution provides for the PROTECTION of the minority in a majority. You are stating an arbitrary and partisan threat that is grossly Un-Constitutional.
You’ve lived very, very very well in a very very very safe country made possible by tremendous free will human cooperation at all levels of society and now you want to deny your neighbors what they provided you, but you were too self-centered to realize?
It wasn’t YOU who gave up the easy life to be in school for ten years, studying hard, not slacking, long hours, and supervised on-the-job training before ever getting a first paycheck, of which a good chunk was used to start paying of ff that huge debt. Then the risks and MORE DEBT of starting a business, renting office space, buying equipment, hiring staff with a payroll, and one by one getting clients and giving them the best experience possible so they would STAY clients. YEARS and YEARS of work.
So the thugs who ran away from such hard work are going to read the proclamation of “you lost, I won” to such people to accept an eviceration of their entire life’s work, just because greedy lazy people want all that talent, investment and hard work to jump when they snap their fingers and demand such highly skilled service for cheap?
How’s the doctor supposed to pay for his staff? The rent, the equipment, the taxes, if the government won’t allow him to be paid fairly for his or her services?
The Democrats just run off, no answers for that – and don’t teach history so people won’t have the plain examples of massive failure of every single Socialist state ever constructed on the planet. The centralized governments always fail, so they end up beating people, blaming them for the collapse caused by the egotistical planners’ incompetence, for not being “pure enough.”
Hmmmmm commented:
Don’t be such a drama queen, Wanumba. It’s just health insurance. If you think it’s unconstitutional, we have a system for testing that. If you think it’s a bad idea, well… your side lost that debate. Sorry, but that’s how it works sometime in a free country.
BTW, if you’re suggesting I don’t know how to work hard for little money and plan for the future, let me just tell you that you’re barking up the wrong tree.
discouraged dude commented:
62% of bankruptcies are Medical bill related.
78% of those have insurance.
On Yahoo main page a week or so ago…
Pull your head out people, something has to happen to fix our broken healthcare system. Got an idea?