Posted on 01/12/2026 2:59:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
Why is my doctor worried about my mortgage payments?
So I found myself wondering as I filled out a questionnaire before a recent primary-care visit.
Along with the usual prompts about my health, I encountered a series of questions related to my financial situation.
The form asked whether in the last 12 months I was unable to pay my mortgage or rent on time, and if I was “worried that my food would run out before I got the money to buy more.”
These questions weren’t an attempt to gauge whether I would pay my medical bill; they were part of a campaign driven by political activists out to justify socialist policies in the name of improving health care. […]
The questions I was asked reflect the activist obsession with what’s known as the “Social Determinants of Health.”
The way the argument goes, factors like income, education, neighborhood conditions, racism, access to transportation and so on heavily determine a patient’s health.
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control repeatedly assert that these factors are major drivers of disparities in life expectancy, infant mortality, diabetes rates and cardiovascular disease across racial and socioeconomic groups.
But it’s not true: The framework is based on critical logical and empirical fallacies.
It confuses correlation with causation, while systematically downplaying or ignoring biological, behavioral and genetic variables that often have far more to do with differences in patient health outcomes.
But that’s what you’d expect from a notion that has nothing to do with medicine — and everything to do with politics. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I completed the last census with the number of humans in my home only. Got several follow-up letters and a few door knocks. They gave up
I answered yes to all the stupid social questions. I live in the woods, eating insects and am physically abused by my partner. Each year my answers get more outrageous. Nobody’s said a thing. I don’t think they read them or don’t want to confront me about my answers.
Ask him if he has sex with men, or children under 13.
Socialism slithering its way into everything is an anti-freedom infestation brought to us by the globalist one-worlders. It would be rejected if it were brought on all at once but since they’re slipping and sneaking it in slowly we’ll all end up stuck with it sooner or later.
I answer them all ... but I lie. A non-answer tells them the answer IMHO ...
I would answer all of those questions wrong to mess up their socialist scheme.
A friend of mine wrote across the form:
“Please refer all further questions to my lawyer.”
Encountered this questionnaire after I went on Medicare. I thought it was bullsh!t but went along with the game. One of the questions was if I had fallen recently. I answered, “yes, twice last week on the way home from the bar”. The attending nurse thought that was rather humorous but when it came time to do the “put the hands on the clock for 8:15”, I said, “stuff it, I’m not playing this stupid game. Just get on with the exam.” Her eyes got big and she left in a huff. I smiled. Next time I went in for the “wellness check” they just did the exam without all the 20 questions BS.
“Medicare provides a free Annual Wellness Visit (AWV), not a routine physical, to create a personalized preventive care plan, focusing on your health history, medications, and risks for conditions like falls or depression, and it’s fully covered by Part B if you see a Medicare-accepting provider.
You’ll fill out a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) to discuss goals, and while the visit is free, you’ll pay for any treatments, tests, or extra services your doctor performs beyond the wellness check.”
that whole deal is little more than a scam to bully folks into filling out extremely intrusive survey forms that gather data for the Feds and that have little to no health value ...
after we’ve flat out refused to participate a couple of times, some kind of check-mark must have been entered in our “permanent records”, and we are no longer bullied into participating ...
I skipem too!
BUT, I always print, in large letters, “You have a lot of nerve asking these questions!” in answer to ALL non-medical questions.
A few years ago, I used the same phraseology on non-germane long form census questions.
I went to the doctor a few days after Trump was elected in 2016. The nurse asked the standard questions about feeling down and depressed.
I replied “actually for the last eight days I’ve felt better than I have in years.”
She laughed and we moved on.
And most of the nurses sigh and agree with you.
He misspelled anal...,
I’ve been with my current doctor for many years, he knows better than to ask me this crap. During, covid, he didn’t bother to ask me if I got the shot, he knew better.
I certainly WOULDN’T.
My cardiology team wanted to know if I was happy with my sex life. I told them it was none of their d*mned business and that the question was inappropriate for a heart survey.
My response would have been to yell "Yay! An orgy!" and I would have stripped down naked.
However asking about your sex life is appropriate since a lot of medical conditions and quite a few medicines cause impotence...usually men don't mention it if you don't check or ask the wives who come with them.
So what I’m hearing is, “No orgy.”
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