Doctor says “You support Obama, go elsewhere”

MOUNT DORA — 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.”

I personally applaud his stance on this, he is one of many doctors in this country whom are unhappy with what the health care law is going to do to the way health care is handled in America. Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida‘s College of Medicine.  Allen said 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. By insisting he does not quiz his patients about their politics and has not turned away patients based on their vote, the doctor is “trying to hold onto the nub of his ethical obligation,” Allen said.

“But this is pushing the limit,” he said.
 

The limit was pushed when Obama forced this legislation down our throats & now has his hand around our throats in a tax chokehold.  Overall so far, three patients have complained, but most have been “overwhelmingly supportive” of his position.
“Physicians are extended the same rights to free speech as every other citizen in the United States.”

I can see why even the most conservative will still see this as wrong, however what else can one do to help people understand? Tell me your thoughts, too far or about time someone takes a stance?

                                                             Clinton H