Hi! I am Congressman Alan Grayson. It has been suggested that I change my name to Richard Cranium. I like the idea. That is a cool sounding name.
Posted on 04/03/2010 3:10:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
An outspoken U.S. congressman is planning to file a complaint against the central Florida urologist who posted a sign on his office door warning supporters of President Obama to find a different doctor.
A spokesman for Rep. Alan Grayson, who angered Republicans last year when he said they wanted sick Americans to "die quickly," told FoxNews.com that Florida Democrat is helping a constituent who was affected by the sign to file a complaint next week with the proper authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Alan Grayson
There’s no Communist like a pompous Communist.
I am the first to realize that cuts have to be made and there will all be tough choices. But, after seeing how Obama cowtailed to the auto workers unions, it is so glaringly uneven and unfair!
Just watched Fox & Friends interview this doctor. He called Alan Grayson “a fool” and said the sign is still up on his door and he has no intention of backing down.
He said that a copy of the “time-line” fliers he provides for his patients in his waiting room are available for printing out at his web site.
Local radio talk-show host, Bud Hedinger, will be interviewing this doctor live in a few minutes from now on his show.
Listen live here NOW: http://www.540wfla.com/main.html
Here is my reply yesterday to a moonbat on Huffing&P*ssed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/jack-cassell-doctor-refus_n_523076.html
Deede4525 wrote:
Send complaints to the Florida Medical board. Google it and the website will show you how to do it. If we all do it, then this Rethug will be in trouble. Hahahahaha!
Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:03 PM on 4/04/2010
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- + Matchett-PI Replying to Deede4535:
Tactics of intolerance won’t work - they’ve already been exposed:
April 04, 2010
Doctor who posted controversial sign a victim of intolerance
Jerome Darnell
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/doctor_who_posted_controversia.html
Dr. Jack Cassel, the urologist from Florida who recently made headlines with a controversial sign on his office, is under attack in more ways than one.
Because he apparently still has some semblance of legal right to display the sign, the more devious objectors have gone after his reputation.
Healthgrades.com, a website where health providers are rated (anonymously, of course), has seen a recent flurry of activity.
Cassel has gone from a “Good” rating to a “Poor” rating in a miraculously short amount of time. No doubt his 365 ratings (at the time of writing this article) have something to do with it.
Does that number seem unusual to you? Let’s compare.
Another Urologist (listed by the website under “), Dr. John D Thompson, of Taveres, has...1 rating. Dr. James Young, of Eustis (again, suggested by the site), has 2. You will be hard-pressed, in fact, to find any doctor with more than a handful of ratings on the site.
That goes double for a small-town practice in Mount Dora. Don’t expect bigger numbers from other doctors, though: Doctor Rupert Curry, Orlando-based cardiologist of Best Doctors 2008, with the Florida Heart Group (with a patient volume of “100 per day”) has yet to receive a single rating.
Now considering that, before this incident, Dr. Cassel had merely a handful of ratings, what can we deduce?
Even if Cassel were turning people away for their political beliefs (which he has repeatedly stated that he is not), there are anonymous hordes willing to falsify a survey to sully the reputation of a man they never knew...and they justify it on political beliefs.
These people practice the intolerance they claim to hate.
Comments: http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/1/571790.html
Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 PM on 4/04/2010 by Matchett-PI bttt
How was this asshat's constituent "affected by the sign"? Anybody who was "affected by the sign" is obviously too weak-minded to be successfully functioning in society and needs to be institutionalized for the greater good. And the democrat party - rather than the taxpayers - should pick up the tab.
Here’s the Time Line Dr. Cassell provides for his patients in his office:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36281
Timeline of the Democrats Healthcare Package
Posted 04/01/2010 ET
Rep. Dave Camp, ranking Republican of the House Ways and Means Committee, has compiled this list of when different aspects of the recently passed healthcare legislation will go into effect.
2009
• 2]year tax credit (total cap of $1 billion) for new chronic disease therapy investments
• Medicare cuts to hospitals begin (long]term care (7/1/09) and inpatient and rehabilitation facilities (fiscal 2010)) 2009
2010
• States and federal officials review premium increases
• FDA authorized to approve “follow]on” biologics
• Increase brand name pharmaceutical Medicaid rebate (from 15.1% to 23.1%)
• Medicare payments to physicians in primarily rural areas increase (2 years)
• Deny “black liquor” eligibility for cellulosic biofuel producers credit
• Tax credits provided to certain small employers for health care]related expenses
• Increase adoption tax incentives for 2 years
• Codify economic substance doctrine and impose penalties for underpayments (transactions on/after 3/23/10)
• Provide income exclusion for specified Indian tribe health benefits provided after 3/23/10
• Temporary high]risk pool and high]cost union retiree reinsurance ($5 billion each for 3.5 years) (6/23/10)
• Impose 10% tax on indoor UV tanning (7/1/10)
• Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/10)
• Prohibits lifetime and annual benefit spending limits (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
• Prohibits non]group plans from canceling coverage (rescissions) (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
• Requires plans to cover, at no charge, most preventive care (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
• Allows dependents to stay on parents’ policies through age 26 (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
• Provides limited protections to children with pre]existing conditions (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
• Hospitals in “Frontier States” (N.D., Mont., Wyo., S.D., Utah) receive higher Medicare payments (fiscal 2011)
• Hospitals in “low]cost” areas receive higher Medicare payments for 2 years ($400 million, fiscal 2011)
22011010
2011
• Medicare Advantage cuts begin
• No longer allowed to use FSA, HSA, HRA, Archer MSA distributions for over]the counter medicines
• Medicare cuts to home health begin
• Wealthier seniors ($85k/$170k) begin paying higher Part D premiums (not indexed for inflation in Parts B/D)
• Medicare reimbursement cuts when seniors use diagnostic imaging like MRIs, CT scans, etc.
• Medicare cuts begin to ambulance services, ASCs, diagnostic labs, and durable medical equipment
• Impose new annual tax on brand name pharmaceutical companies
• Americans begin paying premiums for federal long]term care insurance (CLASS Act)
• Health plans required to spend a minimum of 80% of premiums on medical claims
• Physicians in “Frontier States” (N.D., Mont., Wyo., S.D., Utah) receive higher Medicare payments
• Prohibition on Medicare payments to new physician]owned hospitals
• Penalties for non]qualified HSA and Archer MSA distributions double (to 20%)
• Seniors prohibited from purchasing power wheelchairs unless they first rent for 13 months
• Brand name drug companies begin providing 50% discount in the Part D “donut hole”
• 10% Medicare bonus payment for primary care and general surgery (5 years)
• Employers required to report value of health benefits on W]2
• Steps towards health insurance administrative simplification (reduced paperwork, etc) begins (five year process)
• Additional funding for community health centers (five years)
• Seniors who hit Part D “donut hole “in 2010 receive $250 check (3/15/11)
• New Medicare cuts to long]term care hospitals begin (7/1/11)
• Additional Medicare cuts to hospitals and cuts to nursing homes and inpatient rehab facilities begin (fiscal 2012)
• New tax on all private health insurance policies to pay for comp. eff. research (plan years beginning fiscal 2012)
2012
• Medicare cuts to dialysis treatment begins
• Require information reporting on payments to corporations
• Medicare to reduce spending by using an HMO]like coordinated care model (Accountable Care Organizations)
• Medicare Advantage plans with a 4 or 5 star rating receive a quality bonus payment
• New Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/12)
• Hospital pay]for]quality program begins (fiscal 2013)
• Medicare cuts to hospitals with high readmission rates begin (fiscal 2013)
• Medicare cuts to hospice begin (fiscal 2013)
2013
• Impose $2,500 annual cap on FSA contributions (indexed to CPI)
• Increase Medicare wage tax by 0.9% and impose a new 3.8% tax on unearned, nonactive business income for those earning over $200,000 or $250,000 for families (not indexed to inflation)
• Generally increases (7.5% to 10%) threshold at which medical expenses, as a percentage of income, can be deductible
• Eliminate deduction for Part D retiree drug subsidy employers receive
• Impose 2.3% excise tax on medical devices
• Medicare cuts to hospitals which treat low]income seniors begin
• Post]acute pay for quality reporting begins
• CO]OP Program: Secretary of Health and Human Services awards loans and grants for establishing nonprofit health insurers
• $500,000 deduction cap on compensation paid to insurance company employees and officers
• Part D “donut hole” reduction begins, reaching a 25% reduction by 2020
2014
• Individuals without government]approved coverage are subject to a tax of the greater of $695 or 2.5% of income
• Employers who fail to offer “affordable” coverage would pay a $3,000 penalty for every employee that receives a subsidy through the Exchange
• Employers who do not offer insurance must pay a tax penalty of $2,000 for every full-time employee
• More Medicare cuts to home health begin
• States must have established Exchanges
• Employers with more than 200 employees can auto]enroll employees in health coverage, with opt]out
• All non]grandfathered and Exchange health plans required to meet federally mandated levels of coverage
• States must cover parents /childless adults up to 138% of poverty on Medicaid, receive increased FMAP
• Tax credits available for Exchange]based coverage, amount varies by income up to 400% of poverty
• Insurers cannot impose any coverage restrictions on pre]existing conditions (guaranteed issue/renewability)
• Modified community rating: individual or family coverage; geography; 3:1 ratio for age; 1.5:1 for smoking
• Insurers must offer coverage to anyone wanting a policy and every policy has to be renewed
• Limits out]of]pocket cost]sharing (tied to limits in HSAs, currently $5,950/$11,900 indexed to COLA)
• Insurance plans must include government]defined “essential benefits “ and coverage levels
• OPM must offer at least two multi]state plans in every state
• Employers can offer some employees free choice vouchers for health insurance in the Exchange
• Government board (IPAB) begins submitting proposals to cut Medicare
• Impose tax on nearly all private health insurance plans
• Medicare payment cuts for hospital]acquired infections begin (fiscal 2015)
2015
• More Medicare cuts to home health begin
2016
• States can form interstate insurance compacts if the coverage with HHS approval (2016)
2017
• Physician pay]for]quality program begins for all physicians
• States may allow large employers and multi]employer health plans to purchase coverage in the Exchange.
• States may apply to the HHS secretary for a limited waiver from certain federal requirements
2018
• Impose “Cadillac tax on “high cost” plans, 40% tax on the benefit value above a certain threshold: ($10,200 individual coverage, $27,500 family or self]only union multi-employer coverage)
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Update: Florida Doc Explains ObamaCare Warning to His Patients
http://www.breitbart.tv/update-florida-doc-explains-obamacare-warning-to-his-patients/
5 posted on Monday, April 05, 2010 9:11:44 AM by Matchett-PI
Hmmm...I smell a connection here...
The Doctor is a Urologist....
And Grayson is a d*ck...
Should be a match made in Heaven...
Just another attack by a “public servant” on a private citizen who DARES to resist their despotism.
"Because there is no statute, there would be no grounds for a complaint," spokeswoman Eulinda Smith said. "It would be legally deficient."So typical of dems, Grayson is undeterred by the fact that his complaint is LEGALLY DEFICIENT; he is determined to harass this doctor who had the audacity to exercise his free speech rights.But Grayson appears undeterred, arguing the Cassell has violated the Hippocratic Oath when he turned away patients on the basis of political beliefs.
They haven’t found anyone that was “turned away because of political beliefs”.
It won’t happen.
Some will turn THEMSELVES away.
I seriously wouldn’t want to give a doctor that supported 0bama any of my income,
so I can imagine some on the other side feeling the same way.
I seriously wouldn’t want to give a doctor that supported 0bama any of my income, so I can imagine some on the other side feeling the same way.
Some of us love that kind of freedom. Others despise and fear it.
Send this doctor before “HUAC”!
The Rat House’s Un-American ingestigative Committee.
And this clown’s a disgrace to the Florida legal profession. Complain against him and get him disbarred. What goes around . . .
His (Grayson's) spokesman, Jurkowski, told FoxNews.com that at least one person followed the instructions on the sign and there could have been more.Actually, Mr Jurkoffsky, a REASONABLE person would interpret that anybody who TURNED HIMSELF OR HERSELF AWAY upon seeing the sign was simply freely making a market decision regarding where to seek medical treatment. Apparently you have a problem with freedom."I think a reasonable person would deemed that being turned away," Jurkowski said.
A University of Florida professor said Cassell is walking a thin line between free speech and professional obligation. William Allen, a specialist in bioethics, law and medical professionalism, said civil rights protections can prevent patient discrimination. But the law only provides for race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and disability -- not political opinion.
It could be the difference of how the left and right define “power”.
Power, rightly, is defined as the ability to limit others’ choices.
Power, “leftly”, is defined as the effect of influencing someone’s choices.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2486181/posts?page=164#164
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2486181/posts?page=165#165 Him saying Grayson is a fool makes me like him even more. All the more reason to support Dan Fanelli to send Grayson packing in November!
Just like the doctor, I can refuse to do business with anyone i choose!
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