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Hypocritical Oath in full effect…

from the Orlando Sentinel…

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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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5 responses to “Hypocritical Oath in full effect…”

  1. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I checked that guy’s town out. Mount Dora, Florida (how can anyplace in Florida be called “Mount” anything?) has higher than average poverty, higher than average age, and a higher than average (for Florida) African-American population. You would think he would be setting himself up for hurting his business. But, they voted 56% for McCain in 2008, so maybe not.

  2. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    The DC crowd is more into working with insuerers right now to get everyone covered than taking them on anytime soon, the public can change that but who needs the public we’ve got the beltway set to set the agenda.

  3. BEZERKO Avatar
    BEZERKO

    Right, I was just trying to say that not all hope was lost, when they killed the public option. In Switzerland, they are private and nonprofit. Their politicians ran against the insurance companies.

  4. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    The bismark model folks all have nonprofit insurers (that are private but nonprofit). I think a public option is much more likely than getting that thru congress.

  5. BEZERKO Avatar
    BEZERKO

    Speaking of health care reform, T.R. Reid explains how the wealthier nations have solved the problem of how to provide care for their citizens. He talks about four models, The Bismarck model is employer provided insurance with heavy regulation, The Beverage model which they use in England with the NHS, the National Health Insurance model used in Canada where the government pays private providers, and the out of pocket model which is used in poorer countries. None of the countries using the Bismarck model, the model we seem to be on track for, have a public option.

    http://fora.tv/2009/09/14/TR_Reid_The_Healing_of_America

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