"Nice doggie. They will shutzen him anyway. Now, confess citizen! How many fingers?" Herr Doktor Kleine Liebchen
Posted on 01/16/2013 9:53:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
You’re visiting your doctor because you have flu symptoms. After checking your heart, pulse and other vital signs, your doctor turns to you and asks, “By the way, the federal government has authorized me to ask you, What type and how many guns do you have in your home?”
Sounds like George Orwell’s “1984”? Wrong. It’s 2013. And if President Barack Obama gets his way by executive order, doctors across the country could play a key role in his new gun control initiative.
On Wednesday morning, Obama released a sweeping 23 executive actions and orders he will take to limit gun usage. Already, talk of the executive orders has raised significant controversy. Order 16, for example, may raise serious concerns with privacy advocates. The order, as summarized, simply states federal agencies will “clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.” …
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Well, if my doctor won’t accept “none of your f***ing business” as an answer, it will be time to find a new doctor.
At least in my part of the country, Oklahoma, I’m pretty sure most doctors are just utterly THRILLED to be instructed to act as proxies for the State on this matter (sarcasm) at the same time the State tries its best to reduce their income and increase their paperwork and vulnerabilities to lawsuits through Obamacare. Sure, there are probably doctors who worship Obama and the State, but I don’t think this new initiative is going to create new ones from their ranks.
Back when I was still in the work force, I was required to have an annual hearing test. One of the questions I was always asked was if I smoked. I always said no, even though I did indeed smoke, thinking, what the hell does smoking have to do with hearing.
One year she asked me, I said no and she said, "I can see a pack of cigarettes in your shirt pocket". I told her that I was just carrying them for a friend, who didn't want his parents to know that he smoked.
She was not amused.
That is the biggest overstatement in the history of reporting.
In which case he will put you down as "refused to answer" which the Feds will treat as a "yes" answer. Better to just lie and say no.
Step 3: Lie to the sorry bastards. Not a case where the truth is obligatory, useful, nor merited.
Don’t count on that.
First of all, physicians are overwhelmingly conservative and many are gun owners or licensed dealers in arms.
Second, the worthless American glommy people are the ones whose representatives wanted Obamacare, and who voted for Obama, where all this intrusion is coming from.
The American people must have wanted this sort of invasion of privacy because they just went along with socializing all of medicine.
It sure ain't the fault of the physicians.
And even if the American people enjoy sticking it to the medical profession by consigning them forever to socialism, most physicians still have enough integrity to disobey any of these sorts of orders to report on their (treacherous) countrymen. They won't be ratting you out.
"Nice doggie. They will shutzen him anyway. Now, confess citizen! How many fingers?" Herr Doktor Kleine Liebchen
“Nope doc, no guns in my house. Now please proceed with the annual bloodstream lead check, because I’m really in to my stained glass hobby.”
This doesn’t bother me. If I didn’t like the doctor, I’d just say no and move on. I’ll talk about shooting and my guns to just about anyone that asks. I get gun catalogs in the mail and paperwork from the NRA and VSSA, so the Post Office knows. I go on line, so my ISP knows. The states that I have purchased weapons from know. Florida knows I had a CCW permit. I have a VSSA sticker on my car, stores where I purchase cleaning supplies or ammo know I have guns. The range certainly knows. I use my credit card for purchases. If I choose to open-carry, the world knows. I don’t see the problem.
Yes, they will be looking for any reason they can to declare you mentally ill now. Be careful what you say.
Depends on the Doc, I guess. On general principle, NOYB, but if your Doc is like mine and the previous conversation you had with him on the topic is how his last batch of reloads is working out for you, it’s sort of a different thing.
can I then ask the doctor for his hospital’s records on their current accidental patient deaths and pending and recently settled lawsuits?
He can ask; I don’t have to answer
And your non-answer will be taken not only as a ‘yes’ but also that you are paranoid and angry about intrusive questions- further increasing your risk of violence. think you will just be able to go to a different doctor who wont’ ask? Good luck. not only will that information transfer with your records, but all doctors will essentially be government agents working under Obamacare, so there will be nowhere to go.
I have found that mental health workers are the nuttiest people I’ve ever known. Most of them have or have had mental problems themselves and that’s what prompts them to “help others”.
Here’s how it works. First the doctors, then the school “nurses.” They ask the kids if there’s any guns at home, and then it starts.
That sounds like the plan of many peoples in history that ended up in bad endings.
To those recommending lying: First of all, I am a sinner guilty of lying myself.
However, I am not proud of it ... and would never recommend it to others.
Something like - “I am sorry Doctor. I don’t believe that question is appropriate.” Then find another doctor.
This is exactly my fear. However, I wonder about the doctor's malpractice insurance coverage if charged with violating my civil rights. We are a litigious society.
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