Good lord, it’s the homo debate all over again.
“It’ll ruin American lives and families! …Why will it? …It just will, okay?!”
You guys don’t understand. Obama has just made it somewhat less likely that the good doctor will be denied payment from an insurance company. You can’t just go around taking away a doctor’s right not to be paid and expect him to be okay with it.
It’s damnable pride, that’s all. “I, Dr. Jack Cassell, take greater pride and earnest in my allegiance to party politics than I do in my oath to medicine.”
I wouldn’t go see the guy even if his front door said, “Teabaggers: take your bag and spout elsewhere.”
I don’t understand how you can say:
When Simplico already cited the AMA rule:
which is from their Medical Code of Ethics. This Code of Ethics for physicians says otherwise, does it not?
Well, maybe a specialist in urology might have a special expertise for teabaggers. Does the specialty apply to the dangling boys in the wrinkled suits?
My guess is that the guy is a total hypocrite. He’s in Florida, I’ll bet he doesn’t turn away Medicare patients on the grounds that it’s socialized medicine. I’ll bet he makes a fortune from overcharging the aged – he’s a urologist.
If you truly, truly believe that this is the wrong direction for America, you could maybe consider the act moral (although depending on how one interprets one’s holy book of choice, I’m sure that’s up for grabs too). But there’s no way it’s ethical, as it goes against his profession’s code of conduct.
Morality and politics are a bad, bad mix. It’s part of why things are so dysfunctional in American politics right now.
Why? Because he shares your political beliefs or because he’s an unethical, asshole of a doctor?
Is that what you look for in physician about to stick his finger up your ass, or a long tube up your urethra?
Which makes me wonder if it’s yet another thing I’m unaware of: Do people currently pick their doctor based on their political leanings?
More likely a case of turning Medicare patients away cause he’s not getting paid, period. Many other HC providers are doing the same
Once Obama has fully implemented his evil plan of North American monetary union, we’ll all be paying in Ameros! :eek:
I doubt that this guy is really all that worried about Obamacare. Do you really think he’s that dumb?
My guess is he figured that putting up a sign like this would be a good way to garner attention and possibly a gig on Fox News. Also, he may lose a few liberal-leaning patients, but I’m sure he’ll get more than enough teabaggers to make up for them.
And the magical hand of the free market just made his rates go up.
I don’t have any info to make me think he is that calculating. He is just a guy with a 350,000 dollar job that thinks his opinions should trump those of his patients. He will help educate those unwashed people who don’t know how great the American Health care system is.
In addition to Really Not All That Bright’s point, I have to wonder, then: if this were true, why wasn’t the entire medical industry (or at least doctors) universally against the bill? Were so many of them THAT blinded by partisan ideology that they were willing to lose their livelihoods rather than speak against the bill? (Note that I’m not saying that there were no doctors who opposed it; obviously, there are plenty. I’m saying that if what you say above is true, there should’ve been near universal opposition, and everything I’ve seen says that opinions in the medical profession were split fairly evenly.)
Well, obviously the Democrat doctors are partisan lunatics who’ll vote for anything their grand and glorious leader tells them to without checking on the facts.
Uhhh, OK, so he is “mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore”, but doesn’t know what he’s mad about, except that he’s mad about something, whatever it is?
Here’s my vote, that he’s just another uninformed idiot.
The “noise machine” is dead set against that.
The “noise machine” is definitely dead set against that. I mean, imagine insurance having to pay off, instead iof dumping the policy.
Wasn’t one of the wild claims, that Big Gubmint would be telling people what doctor to go to? Guess they were wrong.
The “noise machine” is definitely dead set against that. I mean, imagine insurance having to pay off, instead iof dumping the policy.
But to hear some people tell it, we’ll see businesses destroyed, and then bread lines, and then doom.
Guess they don’t like that.
I thought rebates and tax refunds and getting money back was a good thing. As for the percentage, a health insurtance company should be working mostly on health insurance (and not bonuses/salaries and lobbying). If too much of the money is going in “the suits” pockets or the politician’s pockets (lobbying) then personally I wanna shop for another company.
Violation of his oath would be refusing to treat them. He is not doing that.
No, you’re simply bent over and ready for the next load of liberal BS. The point has been made several times that he is not refusing to treat anyone.
But, hey - why let facts get in the way of good, old-fashioned liberal hysterics?
Yoohoo, Clothahump… while you’re here