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Obama: Doctors Should Ask About Guns in Homes
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 16 Jan 2013 11:58 AM | Jim Meyers

Posted on 01/16/2013 9:53:02 AM PST by Olog-hai

You’re visiting your doctor because you have flu symptoms. After checking your heart, pulse and other vital signs, your doctor turns to you and asks, “By the way, the federal government has authorized me to ask you, What type and how many guns do you have in your home?”

Sounds like George Orwell’s “1984”? Wrong. It’s 2013. And if President Barack Obama gets his way by executive order, doctors across the country could play a key role in his new gun control initiative.

On Wednesday morning, Obama released a sweeping 23 executive actions and orders he will take to limit gun usage. Already, talk of the executive orders has raised significant controversy. Order 16, for example, may raise serious concerns with privacy advocates. The order, as summarized, simply states federal agencies will “clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.” …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; obamacareguns; obamagunpresser; secondamendment
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To: Conservative4Ever
Nice desk chair.

That's my chair but I don't know anything about that other stuff the old lady has stored in there.


81 posted on 01/16/2013 11:14:01 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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To: usmom

That’s why, for four years now, my phone has been in record mode for every medical appointment. I’m old and a bit bored. It would be almost fun to fight these miserable bastards


82 posted on 01/16/2013 11:15:30 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Olog-hai

Obamacare specifically prohibits doctors and their staff from asking about guns.


83 posted on 01/16/2013 11:16:19 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: TexasRepublic
OK, this p*sses me off!!

Isn't it really stupid to think that the doctor wants to be a cop for Obama? Aren't you kind of a fool to let Obama make you angry at a doctor ?

84 posted on 01/16/2013 11:16:51 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: fatnotlazy

Your family and friends may accidentally ot purposefully betray you.


85 posted on 01/16/2013 11:18:17 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: caddie
Lots of stupid comments, because the commenters are stupid Obama tools. Rush just this moment pointed out that lawyers aren't going to be required to rat people out on guns, just doctors. I don't think a thread on FR has ever ticked me off more than this one.

Like doctors love Obama, after he's ruined medical care in America!

86 posted on 01/16/2013 11:20:31 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: LucyT
Right on LucyT!

From Third Reich: The Rise.

If some parent didn't like the Hitler Youth Program (i.e. getting pregnant while away at camp) they would be turned in by the Children to the Gestapo for endangering the future of Germany.

Please try to spread this Documentary around, especially the 3:10 mark on to fellow FRepers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ke8_bhZW4

87 posted on 01/16/2013 11:21:23 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: fso301
"Just wait for the malpractice suits should a doctor not ask such questions of someone who later commits a firearms related murder/suicide."

There's no wait required for the many other kinds of malpractice suits in retaliation against doctors who ask such questions without reasonable suspicions in advance. Local governments are seeing the first trickle of lawsuits begged for by "progressives" (fascists), too. In a few years, we'll have better leadership in academia, business and government. Until then, enjoy the slowing economy. It's what America is doing.


88 posted on 01/16/2013 11:23:14 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Graybeard58

Now that right there’s funny...I don’t care who you are.


89 posted on 01/16/2013 11:26:37 AM PST by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: onedoug

I have a gub.


90 posted on 01/16/2013 11:29:20 AM PST by windcliff
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To: paul51

I go to the VA so I’m screwed any way you look at it. Those of us getting VA benefits will go a little earlier than the rest.


91 posted on 01/16/2013 11:29:35 AM PST by Terry Mross (People who hate me read my posts and get angry. Yet they can't look away. hee hee)
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To: paul51

I go to the VA so I’m screwed any way you look at it. Those of us getting VA benefits will go a little earlier than the rest.


92 posted on 01/16/2013 11:30:42 AM PST by Terry Mross (People who hate me read my posts and get angry. Yet they can't look away. hee hee)
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To: tumblindice

“If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog.”

SHAMELESS plagiarizing!

;^)


93 posted on 01/16/2013 11:39:29 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Olog-hai

Any government agent intruding on your privacy is a violation of the 3RD amendment. The purpose for not quartering soldiers in your home is so that a government employee or agent cannot gather information about you and your family.
If the government mandates a doctor to conduct this intelligence gathering then that is a 3rd amendment violation against your right to privacy.


94 posted on 01/16/2013 11:42:09 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Children, pets, and slaves get taken care of. Free Men take care of themselves.)
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To: BuffaloJack
"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals .... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

-- Albert Gallatin, New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789


95 posted on 01/16/2013 11:55:20 AM PST by EternalVigilance (It's amazing how expensive "free" can be.)
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To: Tenacious 1; Eva

Y’all just agreed? This has been going on for years. My kids are now grown (in the legal sense only) and they were asked back when they still young enough for me to be in the room with them but old enough to know bs when they saw it. Talk about your eye rolls and wrinkled noses. I just sat back and enjoyed watching the fan get hit. Uh, hello, can you not read the records where it plainly states Daddy is in law enforcement? Of course, when Daddy found out, he immediately called to complain and learned he wasn’t the first. It was shortly after that the doctor was no longer employeed there.

As for vets asking, then our vet better turn in himself, too. Yes, hubby and he get into tall tales about such. BTW, the cat became an inside cat after she deposited one too many live presents in the middle of my living room. The last one lost to my old cast iron skillet (yes, I decided close contact was the better option to holes in the furniture). Anyone know if cookware is listed in the banned assault weapons list?


96 posted on 01/16/2013 12:02:52 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: Olog-hai

Doctors have been asking about guns for a few years now...


97 posted on 01/16/2013 12:03:49 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: bgill

My doctor has been asking for years also. My then 12 year old daughter PROUDLY talked about the gun she’d gotten from Christmas one year.

Of course, we live out in the country and the doctor was a hunter also, so no one raised an eyebrow at that information.

As it should be....


98 posted on 01/16/2013 12:06:22 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: Orangedog
Look up oppositional defiant disorder in the DSM IV. That kind of answer will get you reported to the feds as being “mentally ill” and prohibited from gun ownership.

Most GPs and family practitioners can't even spell DSM, much less diagnose out of it, and even if they did the Dx would not be taken seriously as it is defined as a pediatric disorder only. I agree with those who advise to 'just say no' when asked about gun ownership, or if you are on particularly good terms with your current physician make a joke out of it (boat accident, etc.). Around here they haven't asked much about gun ownership because a person who grew up here and DIDN'T own a gun would be the real exception. Will be interesting to see if they start asking anyway.

99 posted on 01/16/2013 12:16:34 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: All

Here is how that conversation will go with my doc.

Dr. D: Jim, you got any guns in your house?

Me: Why do you ask, Dr. D?

Dr. D: Just wondering if you can spare some ammo. I shot all mine up at the range yesterday

(BTW, my doc’s a prepper and HATES Obumber)


100 posted on 01/16/2013 12:27:23 PM PST by Jim Hill
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