Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care

[mrjarrell]

Utilising the free market, free speech and the freedom to associate with whomever one pleases, a Florida doctor has posted a sign urging Obamacare supporters to seek care elsewhere. Good for him! If more people would exercise these rights and outright shun supporters and politicians who support tyranny then some headway could be made.

Via the Orlando Sentinel

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."

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.

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[BloodEclipse]

That Doctor is a stand up guy.

 

[T-rav]

Dang you beat me to it I was reading the article as you posted it!

That is one hell of a stand up doctor! We need more professionals like this.

 

[Fletch]

The free market at work. No private business should have to serve customers they don't want to serve.

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[femurphy77]

One of the underlying problems in our country is that people are not willing to stand up what they say or how they feel. I for one do not like to do business with Chinamart no matter what the name on the signs says. IOW "Made in China" really pisses me off! But due to economic considerations I gripe all the way thru checkout with my bag full of this tripe!

People like to complain about things but they think it should be somebody else that suffers the hardships of standing up!

Personally as my own situation improves it will be harder for me to shop because there is so little in the consumer market that isn't "Made in China"!

 

[andrewheath]

That guy rocks. I would buy him a beer in a instant.

 

[RachelMarie]

Yeah - they're goin' nuts on some of the more left-leaning websites over this.

Liberal heads just exploding all over the place. What a MESS!!

Some of the better comments:

Common theme seems to be that, as a physician, this doc is "required" to treat all patients regardless, and has no right to express his opinion while doing so.

They've also posted his phone number, so I imagine this poor guy is in for a world of harassment.

The Hate and Stupidity - it BURNS!

republicans want you to die....lmao

 

[Greatestsin]

The outspoken Grayson described Cassell's sign as "ridiculous."

"I'm disgusted," he 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?"

Definitely sounds like he feels like the sore loser himself even though they passed their unconstitutional bill

 

[jeremy]

If his practice starts to fail there, I wonder if he would relocate?!
I bet he could do very well in Indiana with a sign out front like that.

 

[shibumiseeker]

If his practice starts to fail there, I wonder if he would relocate?!
I bet he could do very well in Indiana with a sign out front like that.

Maybe. Me, personally, I don't want any doctor I go to wearing his politics on his sleeve like that. I don't care what the politics are. I expect them to be professional and I don't want to worry that I might get substandard care if the doctor finds out that I have different politics than his or hers. And I treat the most frothing at the mouth conservative or liberal the exact same way when I am working as an EMT.

 

[mrjarrell]

Hopefully this doctor will extend his principles to their logical conclusion and start refusing Medicare and Medicaid. Socialised medicine is socialised medicine, no matter how long it's been around.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Here's what continues to be fundamentally wrong with our country.

First, a guy stands up for his personally beliefs, legally expresses them, and the far left (who by the way like to tout themselves as being all - inclusive and there to help all people) immediately jump all over the guy like he's some sort of criminal.

 

[Expat]

Republicans want you to die - this is proof.

I can think of quite a few that.... oh never mind. Mama always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all...

 

[Expat]

Hopefully this doctor will extend his principles to their logical conclusion and start refusing Medicare and Medicaid. Socialised medicine is socialised medicine, no matter how long it's been around.

Wait, if they actually make that Medicare cut they promised to pay for the Obamacare, a lot of them have said they will have to stop taking those patients.

 

[jeremy]

Maybe. Me, personally, I don't want any doctor I go to wearing his politics on his sleeve like that. I don't care what the politics are. I expect them to be professional and I don't want to worry that I might get substandard care if the doctor finds out that I have different politics than his or hers. And I treat the most frothing at the mouth conservative or liberal the exact same way when I am working as an EMT.

See I disagree with you on this. He owns a business, and should have the right to refuse any customer at his choosing.

 

[dburkhead]

I can think of quite a few that.... oh never mind. Mama always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all...

...

 

[shibumiseeker]

See I disagree with you on this. He owns a business, and should have the right to refuse any customer at his choosing.

What are you disagreeing with? I never said he should be forced to take on any patient. He's not providing emergency care, so he's perfectly free to pick and choose, unlike me. I don't think it should be any other way in the US. I said *I* don't want to worry that my doctor may change his care of me based on his politics.

 

[jeremy]

So don't tell him your politics if you are concerned about that. Easy fix...

 

[Fletch]

So don't tell him your politics if you are concerned about that. Easy fix...

Or go to a different doctor.