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 ...
Maybe the possibility of tripping over them? That’s what came to mind. I still didn’t answer it.
Me too. I changed my daughter's pediatrician over a "health" questionnaire that was stupidly personal and political.
Told the beta male PA interrogator it was our last appointment.
Strange question!
I would at the very least ask them why they are asking these questions
My doctor and I exchange views on black rifles and accessories.
Obamacare had a lot of insidious garbage in it.
My doc was and is wise to this crap.
ASK HIM BACK-—DOES HE???
#2 PROBLEM WITH BABIES IS THE HUGE GROUP OF “VACCINES” THEY GET WITHIN 5 DAYS...
Guess, I’m lucky.
My doctor and I came to an “understanding” during the scamdemic.
We’re good.
DEFIANT BARELY SCRATCHES THE SURFACE WHEN I GET THOSE KINDS OF QUESTIONS.
THAT IS A REALLY GOOFY QUESTION-—OLD FARTS TEND TO TRAVEL MORE
“”Why in the world would anybody answer those questions?””
I’ve never been given anything like that to complete - I won’t even put my SS # down on the line provided...no push back when I do that...Never could figure out what the SS # has to do with a visit to a doctor...
Not mine, he’s a great family doctor
NOT A FAIR QUESTION FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN DIVORCED.
DOC TRIED TO TELL MY I HAD TO TAKE .81 MG BABY ASPIRIN FOR REST OF LIFE-—OK-—
THEN I GUESS YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE 800 MG ADVIL I HAVE AT HOME.....
I THOUGHT SHE WOULD STROKE OUT-—YOU DON’T USE THOSE, DO YOU???
OF COURSE I DO—_WHEN I NEED TO....
PERFECT
DITTO!
A few months ago, I crossed out those entire similar sections on my own forms...
However, on my wife’s I wrote that her husband (me) was brutally starving her slot-machine habit by limiting trips to the casino to a maximum of once a week...
I GOT ASKED THAT QUESTION A MONTH AGO-—
I TOLD THE LADY THAT I AM REALLY MAD WHEN I THROW ASHTRAYS-—AND THEY WERE MADE OUT OF PISTONS—_ALL METAL.
SHE STOPPED ASKING QUESTIONS
I REALLY STOPPED THEM IN THEIR TRACK:
NO MORTGAGE PAYMENT SINCE 2004.
NO CAR PAYMENT SINCE 1984
OLD, BRITTLE BONES==SLIP & FALL
One of my acquaintances was complaining that Kaiser Permanente was asking those kinds of questions online, which means there would be a digital record of the answers, and also using AI to record and summarize actual doctor visits—he later got a summary from his urologist about his peenie problems. That is eerie.
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