{"id":708930,"date":"2010-04-05T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004125"},"modified":"2010-04-05T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:07:11","slug":"florida-urologist-wont-touch-you-if-you-support-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708930","title":{"rendered":"Florida Urologist Won&#8217;t Touch You If You Support Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/doc-thumb-158x147-38923.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A Florida urologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/04\/02\/1560464\/fla-doctors-sign-warns-away-obama.html\">hoisted a sign<\/a> outside his practice that reads &#8220;If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years,&#8221; the Miami Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>The story quotes the bitter doc:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Jack) Cassell told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday he wasn&#8217;t questioning patients or refusing care, because that would be unethical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cassell, 56, also provides Republican reading material in the waiting room &#8211; probably not a risky move, given that Mount Dora&#8217;s 10,000 residents and the surrounding area lean heavily conservative. Above a stack of GOP health care literature, a sign reads: &#8220;This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it.&#8221;<\/p?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think it&#8217;s ethical to integrate politics into business?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/04\/02\/1560464\/fla-doctors-sign-warns-away-obama.html\">Florida doctor&#8217;s sign warns away Obama supporters<\/a> [Miami Herald]<br \/>\n<em>(Thanks, Avri!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida urologist hoisted a sign outside his practice that reads &#8220;If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years,&#8221; the Miami Herald reports. The story quotes the bitter doc: (Jack) Cassell told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday he wasn&#8217;t questioning patients or refusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yqm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}