Video: Interview with Doctor Who Allegedly Refused to Take Patients Who Voted Obama: I was Angry, Discouraged!

The Florida doctor who allegedly refused to take patients by hanging a sign on the front of his practice's door said that he was angry and also discouraged when he tried to inform himself and then his patients about the chaos that is Barack Obama's health care "reform." Appearing in an exclusive cable TV interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, Dr. Jack Cassell also clarified that his sign telling patients who voted for Obama to "seek urologic care elsewhere" was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion, as he was adamant that he would still take care of patients regardless of their political leanings and just wanted to send a message about the problems with Obama's health care "reform." It was gratifying to hear the good doctor tell his side of the story away from the liberal, mainstream media's spin, as they had been unfairly piling on and basically accusing him of turning away Obama voters.

Dr. Cassell said that the reason behind his sign appearing on his door came from his dutiful-yet-frustrating efforts to understand precisely the timeline of implementation of some of the provisions in Obama's health care "reform." The provisions that really set off the good doctor-and consequently caused him to post his sign in a form of symbolic protest-were ones concerning ancillary services, diagnostic imaging, and nursing homes. Apparently, in a year or so, according to the doctor, these services "mysteriously" begin disappearing under Obama's health care "reform," which would certainly support the arguments of people like Dick Morris who have long and resolutely asserted that Obama's health care "reform" would lead to rationing of care!

The sign on the front door was also an effort by the doctor to raise awareness among his patients of exactly what would be taking place under Obama's health care "reform." Not surprisingly, confirming that the liberal, mainstream media has utterly manipulated this story to make Dr. Cassell look like some kind of monster, 98% of the doctor's patients are nonetheless "energized" over his efforts to get them thinking about Obama's "reform," of which the sign on the front door is a part, according to him.

When asked by Cavuto about purported violations of ethics that his sign seemed to imply and that a so-called "professor in bioethics" that the AP talked to raised concerns about (clearly the AP went and got a professor who'd agree with their slant against Dr. Cassell), Dr. Cassell reassured the audience that he would under no circumstances refuse patients based on their politics. In doing so, the doctor also soundly refuted the slanderous allegations of hardcore, fanatical, liberal partisan Democrats like Alan Grayson who-if you can actually believe the latest mischievous actions of this man-actually accused Dr. Cassell of racism by turning away black voters! What?!! That accusation by Grayson is so insanely inflammatory that he may as well accuse the doctor of being bigoted towards any other demographic that voted Obama...you know, like every single union member in the country, every single journalist working in the media, and every single deadbeat who was looking for a handout! More likely, Grayson was just using the race issue-race-baiting, as so many Democrats are fond of doing-to advance support for Obama's health care "reform," not because he actually gave a damn about the blacks in Mount Dora.

Curiously, Dr. Cassell also revealed that there are a good number of Obama supporters in his patient base with whom he has political discussions all the time. In fact, not only would he see patients if they're chronically misled Obama supporters, but he would even go the extra step of generously educating them about all the pitfalls of Obama's health care "reform," specifically a two-page timeline that he either was preparing for patients or read about, which would ostensibly contain the worrisome information about all the cuts in ancillary care and more that he became aware of.

There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth if you will. There's the side of the story that's ferociously spun out of any resemblance to basic truth-which the mainstream media is responsible for-and there's the side of the story that belongs to Dr. Cassell who's finally clarified his exact intentions. For my money, I believe the doctor over the spin from the vile, liberal media as they clearly only cared about divining the doctor's intentions and at the very least insinuating that he was guilty of denying care to Obama supporters merely based on reading the sign, but without actually talking to the man. I'll file this story under much liberal ado about nothing.

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Sources:

Florida Doctor Tells Obama Supporters to "Go Elsewhere" for Care, ABC News

Dick Morris, Here Comes Health Care Rationing, DickMorris.com

Florida doctor's sign warns away Obama supporters, AP

Susan Donaldson James, Fla. Doctor Tells Obama Voters to Go Away, ABC News