Jack Cassell is too much for some people.
He’s the Florida doctor who told his patients to go
elsewhere for treatment if they voted for Obama. The message
posted on his office door: “If you voted for Obama, seek
urological care elsewhere. Changes to your health begin right
now, not in four years.”
It didn’t take long for Cassell’s Congressman, Rep. Alan
Grayson, a Democrat, to say that he smelled racism.
“Well, in fact, where he lives, in Mount Dora, which is in
my district, many, many of the Democrats who live in Mount Dora
happen to be African-Americans,” explained Grayson. “So, by
saying that he will not treat somebody who supported Obama, he’s
saying that he’s not going to treat a large number of
African-Americans in this community.”
Cassell told Fox News that the real purpose of his door
posting was educational, not racist, and that he wasn’t literally
turning down patients.
“I came across the timeline for implementation of Obamacare
and I got a little discouraged when I got to next year and found
that most of the ancillary services and nursing homes and
diagnostic imaging, all these things start to fade away, and I
felt that my patients really need to know about this, and the
more I thought about it, the angrier I got until I finally felt
like I’m going to put a little splash page on my front door and
just get people thinking a little bit,” Cassell explained.
“I think there’s a real, real problem that’s going on here
in this country and unfortunately Obamacare fatally compromises
my ability, or any doctor’s ability, to uphold the Hippocratic
Oath,” he continued. “I mean, I can’t believe that more people
aren’t standing up. I think all the doctors in the United States
need to take a stand on this, because pretty soon it’s going to
be too late.”
Cassell particularly objects to the $500 billion in
Medicare cuts in the health reform bill, charging that the cuts
would effectively put a stop to hospice services and end of life
care. “Not only do they want you to die at a younger age,” he
said, “they want you to die a slow and painful death as
well.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Grayson, trying to dig up a victim in order
to challenge Dr. Cassell’s medical license and/or empty the
doctor’s bank account, is reportedly looking for an Obama voter
who encountered Dr. Cassell’s notice on the door and then took
flight, thereby being deprived of medical care.
Taking a more positive view of Cassell, Investor’s
Business Daily, in an editorial entitled “Dr. Galt,”
describes Cassell’s actions as “a noble one-man fight against the
soft tyranny of the federal takeover of the health care
sector.”
“Galt” is the fictional hero in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas
Shrugged, the individualist who organizes a strike by the
most productive members of society against the organized looters,
the socialists, the redistributionists, a strike against the
stifling bureaucracies and inept governments, against the idea
that man must sacrifice himself to the collective, that others
are somehow entitled to the product of his mind, somehow owed the
product of his labor.
In “Dr. Galt,” Investor’s Business Daily contends
that Cassell understands that we’re on the path to where
“Washington will eventually treat him and others doctors as
vassals of the state,” that America’s doctors “will no longer be
the owners of their minds and their labor.”
