Sunday, April 04, 2010

DOCTOR TELLS ObamaCare supporters to find another urologist. An earlier post is here, and his interview with Neal Cavuto is here (but you’ll have to sit through an annoying commercial).

Now idiot Florida Congressman Alan Grayson (Cavuto link above) has decided to get in the act and file a complaint against the doctor ...

Read the comments in both the Hot Air links above. The general consensus seems to be support for Dr. Cassell from the Right (tempered by concern for emergency care) and from the Left, an attitude that doctors, even in private practice, are (or should be) public servants, akin to police and firefighters.

My take? I tend to agree with the Right that the doctor is in private practice; he should be able to select whom he wishes to take as patients. The strongest arguments I can see against his position are with respect to caring for patients who are publicly-funded (Medicare and Medicaid) and the anti-discrimination laws, but both are weak in my mind.

SIDE NOTE: I’m currently a patient with four doctors: a general practicioner, a cardiologist, an opthamologist, and a cornea specialist. Without exception, all have expressed an unease about Obamacare.

Not very reassuring.

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