Doctor Against Treating Obama Supporters Admits Not Knowing What’s In Health Reform Bill

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Doctor Against Treating Obama Supporters Admits Not Knowing What’s In Health Reform Bill
http://www.alan.com/2010/04/03/doctor-against-treating-obama-supporters-admits-not-knowing-whats-in-health-reform-bill/

Dr. Jack Cassell, the Orlando urologist who put a sign on his door letting patients know he doesn’t want to have to treat them if they are Obama/health care reform supporters, was on my radio show Friday night, but didn’t seem to know much about the health care bill he’s criticizing.

At 1:46 in:


Cassell: Hospice cuts in 2012…Does the government want people to die slowly?
Colmes: Do you really think the government wants people dead?
Cassell: Well I think that they’re cutting all supportive care, like nursing homes, ambulance services…
Colmes: What to you mean they’re cutting nursing homes?
Cassell: They’re cutting nursing home reimbursements
Colmes: Isn’t what they’re cutting under the Medicare plan what was really double dipping; they were getting credits and they were getting to deduct them at the same time.
Cassell: Well you know, I can’t tell you exactly what the deal is.
Colmes: If you can’t tell us exactly what the deal is, why are you opposing it and fighting against it?
Cassell: I’m not the guy who wrote the plan.
Colmes: But if you don’t know what the deal is why are you speaking out against something you don’t know what the deal is?
Cassell: What I get online, just like any other American. What I’m supposed to understand about the bill should be available to me.
Colmes: It is; it’s been online for a long time; it’s also been all over the media…

In fact, the National Association of Home Care and Hospice praises much of the bill.


CASSELL'S CRASS CONFUSION.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023191.php

[NJmaverick]

1. Racism and ignorance are the bedrock of the teabagger movement

[sarge43]

2. Quelle surprise.

My mind{sic} is made up; don't confuse me with facts.

[Warpy]

3. Obviously, the good doctor only goes to World Nut Daily

and other wingnut approved websites to get his information. Well, that and those insurance company Astroturf mass emails.

The good doctor is an idiot. His sign was a great warning: go elsewhere if you value your life.

[SocialistLez]

4. I just put this up on another message board

where tea baggers are sometimes numerous.


Check it out if you dare:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/

My user name there is PurpleLove08

[Saturday]

10. I noticed no one has answered you. lol nt

[SocialistLez]

11. Happens a lot

They don't like my posts that poke holes in their ring-wing nuttery.

[bluethruandthru]

5. Sad... I know so many people like this.

They've heard the lies of Limbaugh and company and they honestly believe that's what's in the bill.

Right wing talk is destroying our country. I welcome honest debate and differences of opinion...but flat out lying on the public airwaves is driving our country to ruin.

[pinboy3niner]

6. I saw a clip of him on cable news . . .

saying he was "having a little fun" with his ban on Obama voters. I guess, like the balloon-boy dad, he craves attention, and perhaps hopes to boost the prospects for his wife's political campaign. Maybe he fantasizes himself as the next teabagger hero, a regular Joe the plumber. Whatever . . . I don't think he's really worth the attention.

[Liberty Belle]

7. So if he needs emergency care....

I hope he gets an ER doc who tells him he doesn't want to treat opponents of Obama's heatlhcare bill.

[tridim]

8. Typical, he's a casualty of Faux and RW hate radio

His brain has been turned to mush, as was their plan.

Someone needs to make a hard copy of this discussion and tape it to his door under his sign.

[jody]

9. "Not Knowing" Shame, Shame, that makes him no different than most who voted for the bill & signed it

[bobburgster]

12. No suprise there!

Fits the republican mold of "I know nothing" but profess to know all.

[kestrel91316]

13. His patient Limbosevic told him to oppose it, so he opposes it.

:shrug:

[tavalon]

14. Jack the Urologist

Joe the Plumber. Sarah the quitter. They have quite the gang, no?

[marmar]

15. How did this troglodyte get a medical degree?

nt

[progressoid]

16. I think we'd all be better off if he wasn't practicing medicine anyway.