Why his, in particular? Why would it not destroy every single medical practice in this country? Or do you think it will?
Surely you aren’t stating that this doctor’s level of care would’ve been affected by his political beliefs, had he continued to treat everyone, are you? Or that he should take out his frustrations with the government on the patients who voted for it? And why would someone who believes in UHC “applaud” this doctor in either case?
Medicare has forced a large number of doctors to either close their doors or stop accepting Medicare. Doctors will not have the option to not accept Obamacare.
What, the injection of logic and reason into the middle of a liberal wankfest? You betcha it begins.
He’s not refusing to treat them. He’s simply asking them to go somewhere else for treatment. If they don’t, he’s not going to turn them away.
Lets see the payment schedules comparing the two.
How are they not? Obamacare is going to adversely affect his way of making a living. He is simply emphasizing that point.
I think it will. If Obamacare is not obliterated, I think that we are going to see a tremendous shortage of doctors. People just aren’t going to go into the profession any longer because they won’t be able to make a living at it. As I mentioned earlier, currently doctors can refuse to take Medicare. They won’t be able to refuse to take Obamacare.
I didn’t advocate anything of the sort. I’m simply applauding him for having the integrity to stand up for his beliefs.
How, in fact, is a sign on his front door urging people who voted for Obama and are in need of urological care to go away not in violation of his oath? He’d be a lot more ethical if he simply retired.
Garden hose catheter seems appropriate.
I don’t want to know what political persuasion my doctors happen to hold. If I find out my doctor’s political beliefs, that’s probably because he has gone out of the way to let me know what they are. (Excepting cases where it comes up in friendly conversation, but I have never personally had this happen, nor would I expect it to.) If he has gone out of the way to let me know what they are – for example, by putting a sign up on the front door – then I wonder if this is going to affect his level of care given to certain patients. And if he’s going to be unprofessional enough to let that happen, in what other ways might he be unprofessional? I don’t feel I can trust such a person to provide me with excellent care, so if possible I’m going to find another doctor.
This would be true even if the political sign in question were a pro-Obama poster in the waiting room, or a “Teabaggers not welcome” sign, or anything like that. Unprofessional and unnecessary.
I welcome logic, and am still waiting for it’s injection.
This isn’t a liberal anything, this man is not your hero. He is a fucking hack of a doctor, and a jerk of a person. You can accept that, and acknowledge that, regardless of who is he refusing to treat.
So here I am, bent over and ready for logic:
What exactly are “his beliefs?” That he shouldn’t have to treat liberals?
What is he standing up for? Who is he standing up to?
What logic are you applying here?
So a guy voted for Obama a couple years ago, now he has an enlarged prostate, and this doctor has decided to take it out on him?
In the end, the whole exercise is pointless because the doctor has no way of knowing who voted for Obama. All he’s done is make a meaningless gesture that the conservatives are going to have a field day with. Like I said, he’s being applauded by the right for “stickin it to the man.” He’s their new hero.
Why the hell would you make this asshole your hero? What the fuck is the difference between “liberals go elsewhere” and all the other forms of discrimination we’ve been working to get rid of?
“So I took off my hat and said imagine that. Me workin’ for you.”
Please explain to me, in some detail, what aspects of this law are going to destroy his business, and how. Thank you in advance.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023191.php
By way of Washington Monthly, connecting to Alan Colmes (late of Hannity and His Bitch), this interview outake…
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I like this doctor. 
What are you talking about? The HCR legislation doesn’t create a new health plan. It simply modifies existing ones. There’s no Medicare buy-in or public option; health insurance will still be offered by private companies, for profit. It doesn’t modify or restrict reimbursement rates.
Read this, and make up your own mind; you do yourself a disservice by letting other people make it for you before you have the facts.
No, it won’t. If you’d bothered to find out what’s in the bill, you’d already know that all “Obamacare” does from the physician’s point of view is add 27 million patients to his list of potential clients.
If anything, Obamacare is going to help his practice.
Yes indeed ,there are just no immediate effects of the health care law . The doctor just knows ,like Clothahump.
That is unless you count
A lot of graduating MDs do not take the Hippocratic Oath (my med school was one that did not, substituting some generic thing I’ve completely forgotten). And if this guy did take the Oath, it’s hard to see how he’s violating it.
The classic Hippocratic Oath has nothing in it that specifically addresses this issue. And I can’t recall Apollo, Panacea or any of the other gods and goddesses having opinions on the matter.
On the other hand the guy has behaved like a jerk, and it will serve him right if he winds up with a practice full of Palindrones and tea partiers with prostates the size of grapefruit, bitching and moaning ad nauseum.
On the other hand, sounds like he won’t have a shortage of patients needing his services and will continue to have a successful practice.
Well, maybe. Some people will be suspicious of a doctor who insists on being paid in Euros…
That’s a real leap, and giving Dr. Cassell the extreme benefit of the doubt.
What I think he’s saying is: “I treat people. Democrats are not people.” Not too different than if it were 1960 and he had a sign up saying, “I treat Whites only.”