You knew this had to happen sooner or later: one doctor is so fuming mad over the new Obamacare bill that Barack Obama signed last week that he posted a sign on his door telling Obama voters to go “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:
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IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA…
SEEK UROLOGIC CARE ELSEWHERE.
CHANGES TO YOUR HEALTHCARE
BEGIN RIGHT NOW.
NOT IN FOUR YEARS.
A urologist is a doctor who treats you for medical problems with your bladder and kidneys, such as kidney stones or bladder infections.
The new bill cuts Medicare payments that doctors would receive but does not limit or put caps on medical liability or litigation against doctors that would bring medical costs down.
A few patients have complained about the sign, but Dr. Cassell says he has not turned any patients away and does not query them on their politicals.
Still, his sign has raised ethics issues. 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.
Dr. Cassell’s lawyer wife, Leslie Campione, says most of Dr. Cassell’s patients have been “overwhelmingly supportive” of his position on the new healthcare bill.
“They know it’s not good for them,” she said.
Source: JWF
