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Florida doctor tells Obama health care supporters to go elsewhere
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 4/02/10 | Steven Hudak

Posted on 04/02/2010 7:00:32 AM PDT by Mamzelle

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."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: fightingback; goinggalt; jackcassell; obamacare
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To: Cordio

In addition to the insulting reimbursements and onerous paperwork burden, our no-show rate for Medicaid patients approached 85%.

Not that the verb is (happily) in the past tense.


41 posted on 04/02/2010 7:57:08 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: EyeGuy

Medicaid = Obama voters = non-compliant lazy cheating dirtbags = filthy entitled drug seekers = disruptive to practice = high risk liability nightmares = little or no reimbursement


42 posted on 04/02/2010 8:13:23 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: Cordio
It's gotten really bad for oxygen providers. On top of reimbursements going down, Medicare is demanding obscene amounts of documentation that require the hiring of more staff just to pull the archives.

We'll cut some incredible deals for those willing to pay cash, just to save us the man-hours.

Shalom.

43 posted on 04/02/2010 8:16:02 AM PDT by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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To: FormerACLUmember

“Medicaid = Obama voters = non-compliant lazy cheating dirtbags = filthy entitled drug seekers = disruptive to practice = high risk liability nightmares = little or no reimbursement.”

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Nailed it, Doctor.


44 posted on 04/02/2010 8:22:04 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: MrB

Carter dictated prices of gas when he was in office. It led to rationing. You take the free market controls away and there has to be a way to control demand. In this case you will have to control supply by mandating that doctors accept medicare at a loss. What do they do when doctors quit and there aren’t enough new doctors to replace them?


45 posted on 04/02/2010 8:24:22 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: jessduntno
Moral of the story...don’t piss off the Urologist...

Appropriate choice of words!

46 posted on 04/02/2010 8:39:49 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: All

Polling on the local newspaper website is 85% IN FAVOR of the doctor’s actions.


47 posted on 04/02/2010 8:48:07 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Mamzelle

BUMP!!!!

We are all Sparticus, or is that Reagan...


48 posted on 04/02/2010 8:51:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Mamzelle; Liz; neverdem; TigerLikesRooster; LucyT
The good Doctor has shown the way to fight back.

We fight - but NOT with violence - which dems love to accuse us of - but with non-violent withdrawal of all support for anyone or anything liberal.

Many thanks to the good doctor...

Ping.

49 posted on 04/02/2010 8:52:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
...the only thing wrong with Canada's system is that it's grossly underfunded.

He needs to be educated on the realities of the Canadian system. I had a friend diagnosed with a heart condition. It took them three months to get an appointment for a followup in-depth scan, requiring traveling from North Bay to Toronto for the exam (about 250 miles). It confirmed she needed a triple bypass. Because of its seriousness, she was placed on the "expedite" list. Even with that, she was scheduled for the surgery seven months later. She died within two months. Say what you will, stating their system is "underfunded" is a bad joke.

50 posted on 04/02/2010 8:53:28 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: Mamzelle; Liz; neverdem; TigerLikesRooster; LucyT
The good Doctor has shown the way to fight back.

We fight - NOT with violence - which dems love to accuse us of - but with non-violent withdrawal of all support for anyone or anything liberal.

Many thanks to the good doctor... He's given us the map, the path and the way...

Ping.

52 posted on 04/02/2010 8:54:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!)
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To: Mamzelle; tubebender; ExTexasRedhead

ping


53 posted on 04/02/2010 8:56:37 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Congress is out of order!)
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To: Mamzelle

That’s one wee-wee’d up urologist.


54 posted on 04/02/2010 8:57:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: jessduntno

“Moral of the story...don’t piss off the Urologist...’

Better than the proctologist.


55 posted on 04/02/2010 8:58:08 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ladyjane
Look at the two areas of medicine which the government hasn’t set the reimbursement rates: cosmetic surgery and lasik surgery. Costs have gone down in those areas.

Right conclusion...wrong reason. The reason is because more doctors chose those areas at a time when the price of such surgeries were very high. Given the huge time lag between seeing high surgery prices for cosmetic surgery and the time to train and be board certified, it's only lately that prices have fallen due to more competition from more cosmetic doctors. As the prices have fallen, more people have elected to have such procedures. It's ALWAYS supply and demand if you look deeply enough.

56 posted on 04/02/2010 8:58:41 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: Mamzelle

My Cardiologist laughed when I ask him if he voted for Obama..He said Hell no, and none of the doctors here did either.. It would be a shame if this wonderful Cardiologist ever had to leave his work..


57 posted on 04/02/2010 9:01:16 AM PDT by PLD
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To: driftdiver

“Better than the proctologist.”

Yeah...he could REALLY stick it to you...I had a friend once who gave up a very successful Dental practice to become a Proctologist...said he couldn’t take the thought of spending the rest of his life looking down people’s throats.


58 posted on 04/02/2010 9:02:08 AM PDT by jessduntno ( If someone calls me racist, I reply "you are just saying that because I'm white!")
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To: Mamzelle

I used to work in Mt. Dora and what’s even funnier is I worked with Estella Chatman who is one of the big wigs in the NAACP in Lake county, Fl. She’s a nice lady but she’s big on blaming Whitey for everything. I think its great that this doctor did that, anybody that voted for Obama is personally responsible for this $hit


59 posted on 04/02/2010 9:02:12 AM PDT by HELLRAISER II (Give us another tax break Mr. President; Kick out the illegal aliens & worry about Americans.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

He will be called to testify before Waxman in a couple weeks.


60 posted on 04/02/2010 9:05:31 AM PDT by NEMDF
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