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defrogITEM: Florida urologist Dr Jack Cassell posts a sign on his office door: "If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."
Cassell explains himself on Fox News, saying he isn’t literally refusing to treat Obama supporters (he's just encouraging them to fuck off, which is totally different), but just trying to make a political point about how horrible the healthcare reform bill is because it completely kills off hospice care:
The reform bill, of course, does no such thing. But whatever. Most healthcare reform opponents never based their arguments on real provisions in the bill anyway – they weren’t going to magically start doing so now that it’s passed.
As Jon Stewart will tell you now.
Anyway, I think this is just the latest symptom (if you will) of the Everything Is Political movement that’s been sweeping the country for the last couple of decades, in which companies and service providers – telephone companies, Burger King, etc – feel compelled to express polarizing political beliefs at the potential expense of a chunk of their customer base.
We already have the ability to choose our media intake, long-distance phone service and condiments based solely on whether it reinforces our own sociopolitical biases. Now we can use the same criteria when choosing doctors, apparently. Because which is more important – where yr doctor studied medicine, years of experience, or who he/she voted for in the last election?
And why not? Personally I think Dr Jack Cassell can believe Obama is a disguised alien lizard man from the planet Arcturus if he wants. And if he wants to treat only Republicans, fine by me. I’m assuming he’s not the only urologist in Mount Dora, so if he wants to send libtard patients to the competition, I’m sure they’ll appreciate the referrals.
I also presume the urology business is brisk enough that Cassell won’t miss the drop-off in clientele. And if he does, then it’s own fault for believing the dingbats who think Obamacare will lead straight to mandatory homosexuality and Nazi death camps.
Which is silly, of course. Everyone knows that the Healthcare Industry is too big to fail. Just ask Pfizer. They committed gross acts of marketing fraud and pinned the blame on a shell company, and the Obama-led DOJ went with it because actually prosecuting and convicting Pfizer would potentially put them out of business.
And that would be bad, considering how Pfizer supports the healthcare reform bill (well, now that they’re convinced it won’t eat into their profit margins).
That’s the free market for you. As opposed to Socialism, I mean.
The doctor is out,
This is dF
Cassell explains himself on Fox News, saying he isn’t literally refusing to treat Obama supporters (he's just encouraging them to fuck off, which is totally different), but just trying to make a political point about how horrible the healthcare reform bill is because it completely kills off hospice care:
"I came across the timeline for implementation of Obamacare and I got a little discouraged when I got to next year when I found that most of the ancillary services and nursing homes and diagnostic imaging, all these things start to fade away," he told Fox News. "And I felt that my patients really need to know about this. And the more I thought about it, the angrier I got until I finally felt like I'm going to put a little splash page on my front door and just get people thinking a little bit."
The reform bill, of course, does no such thing. But whatever. Most healthcare reform opponents never based their arguments on real provisions in the bill anyway – they weren’t going to magically start doing so now that it’s passed.
As Jon Stewart will tell you now.
Anyway, I think this is just the latest symptom (if you will) of the Everything Is Political movement that’s been sweeping the country for the last couple of decades, in which companies and service providers – telephone companies, Burger King, etc – feel compelled to express polarizing political beliefs at the potential expense of a chunk of their customer base.
We already have the ability to choose our media intake, long-distance phone service and condiments based solely on whether it reinforces our own sociopolitical biases. Now we can use the same criteria when choosing doctors, apparently. Because which is more important – where yr doctor studied medicine, years of experience, or who he/she voted for in the last election?
And why not? Personally I think Dr Jack Cassell can believe Obama is a disguised alien lizard man from the planet Arcturus if he wants. And if he wants to treat only Republicans, fine by me. I’m assuming he’s not the only urologist in Mount Dora, so if he wants to send libtard patients to the competition, I’m sure they’ll appreciate the referrals.
I also presume the urology business is brisk enough that Cassell won’t miss the drop-off in clientele. And if he does, then it’s own fault for believing the dingbats who think Obamacare will lead straight to mandatory homosexuality and Nazi death camps.
Which is silly, of course. Everyone knows that the Healthcare Industry is too big to fail. Just ask Pfizer. They committed gross acts of marketing fraud and pinned the blame on a shell company, and the Obama-led DOJ went with it because actually prosecuting and convicting Pfizer would potentially put them out of business.
And that would be bad, considering how Pfizer supports the healthcare reform bill (well, now that they’re convinced it won’t eat into their profit margins).
That’s the free market for you. As opposed to Socialism, I mean.
The doctor is out,
This is dF
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Take it away....
on 2010-04-08 02:31 am (UTC)