Doctor Tells Obama Supporters: Go Elsewhere for Health Care

The Orlando Sentinel ^ | April 2, 2010 | Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel

[DogByte6RER]

Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care

A Mount Dora doctor posted a sign telling Obama health care supporters to go elsewhere.

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.

Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida's College of Medicine.

Allen said doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, but political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law.

[highlander_UW]

Great for this doctor...I hope he realizes that the Obama thugs are going to try to make an example of him.

[ridesthemiles]

He is NOT refusing service-
He is giving the patient a choice.

[ridesthemiles]

Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.

Allen said doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, but political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law.
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LOL. Yah. You must provide your services however you are told and to whoever you are told to at whatever price you are told and without saying anything about how you feel about it.”””

Who wants to bet me how many neo-natal care facilities get closed that are parts of religious facilities?

All those welfare babies will be taken care of by midwives-—just like NObama said:

” I will level the playing field”.

Now Kenyan birth standards will be the norm in the USA !!!!

[FReepaholic]

...So it is okay to post the same article over and over and over again?...

Yep, unless it was prohibited in the ObamaCare bill and I missed it.

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's a better headline.

If you voted for Obama, kiss my aura Mount Dora

[SkyPilot]

Duplicate thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485327/posts