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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17174)	4/22/2010 1:57:18 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

My understanding is that he didn't actually exclude them. If someone came in he wouldn't ask them if they supported Obama, and if they came in and said they did support Obama he would treat them anyway. The sign was more political protest than exclusion. OTOH it would make some people feel excluded, and cause some to exclude themselves, and generally it would annoy a lot of people. If I was a doctor and was going to take a public political stance at my office, I would do it differently, directly arguing against the law, not saying "if you support it get out", or "if you support Obama I don't want to treat you". As much as I apparently at least roughly agree with the doctors politics on this issue, I think the way he handled protesting it was rather rude. And if I was going to protest the policy at the office, I would do it in a much more low key way, not just no exclusionary statements about patients based on their politics, but also the political point wouldn't be in a very prominent location, or stated in harsh terms, if it was going to be done in the office at all. Now strong protests are likely to be rude in many cases, but if your going to be rude, be rude to congress, or Obama, protest against them, say negative things about them etc. Not that the supporters of the policy bare no responsibility for it, but the politicians are the ones who actually made it law.