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. …
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That’s enough to make me move to Tennessee right away, LOL.
“Hell, doc, I’ve got guns in your office.”
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Glad my mouth was empty (grin).
My doc knows I carry, so do some of the specialists I see. Doesn’t cause any stress.
Maybe because I’m an Old Fart and fairly harmless....
My doctor’s questionnaire asked if I had spent the night at a relative’s house in the past 6 months and since I always stay at my cousin’s when I go to Kansas City I said yes. She came in concerned that I was losing my housing which I thought was hilarious. She was not amused.
They are trolling you to see if they can sucker you into taking psych meds.
“Awwww. You are depressed about your mortgage. Quick, take these pills so you can end up shooting up your office or drowning your kids.”
Nurse asks Patient: “Do you ever feel like deliberately injuring someone, because they said something that annoyed you?”
Patient thinks silently: “NOW I do! Where’s a filled up Water Balloon when you need one?”
Patient responds out loud: “No! I never even thought about something like that. Not me!”
I don’t answer any question that I think violates my non-health-related privacy. Questions directly related to my health? Sure. Anything else? Nunyabidness...full stop.
Did he write he wanted a hip replacement instead of a pain pill on the questionnaire ?
I had a check-up a few years ago. My doctor asked me a stupid question, and I looked him in the eye and said: “That’s a stupid question.”
He moved on to some other questions and came up with another. I looked at him again and said: “That’s another stupid question. Are you an idiot?”
Doctors don’t like it when you let them see that you consider them beneath you. He stopped asking me questions. And he retired the next year. He knew they were stupid questions.
For those of you unfortunate enough to have to deal with the VA, do they ask these types of intrusive questions.
Oh hell.
I just finished a small glass of Port with my dark chocolate bar.
You had to ruin it all.
Quacks will now withhold treatment for wrong think. Sooner or later, they will need to be dealt with.
my doctor dropped me from her practice b/c she wants me on every medication under the sun and I said no.
I blame the lawyers.
Sorry. That was for spinetreebob, not you.
I told my kids to tell the pediatrician that Dad hunts a little and has a rifle and a shotgun... I think.
We lived in a semi rural community and EVERYONE was armed to the max.
Sometimes I miss the guns. I’m old and lost all of them when my duck boat sank.😢
My doc asked me if I got the jab. I think the people in the next office building heard me scoff at him.
“”””So I found myself wondering as I filled out a questionnaire before a recent primary-care visit.”””
Is person on medicare or medicaid?
I am on medicare and last year was handed a questionnaire from CMS. I elected to not respond.
If CMS has nothing better to, then CMS has too many employees.
“Why in the world would anybody answer those questions?”
For the same reason that most patients continue to carb-load when they have diabetes, despite the PROVEN FACT that carb-loading destroys their body — PEOPLE TRUST THEIR DOCTORS.
George from New England wrote: “Did you tell them bout your boating accident? Thats in the guns are evil section”
Better yet, be selective when you select a doctor.
Mine is a deer hunter.
Mine has NRA and other gun magazines in his waiting room.
We talk a lot about firearms.
Never answer any question that isn’t directly related to your medical issue and if they insist, simply lie. No one is obligated to give any info, true or false. You are there for them to cure your ailment only. Period, full stop.
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