What happened to Senator Cassidy?

[3catwoman3]

I thought that I remembered reading that Cassidy was a doctor. Sure enough. Here is an excerpt from his Wikipedia Page -


In 1998, Cassidy helped found the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic to provide uninsured residents of the greater Baton Rouge area with access to free health care. The Clinic provides low-income families with free dental, medical, mental health and vision care through a "virtual" approach that partners needy patients with doctors who provide care free of charge.[7]

WTH happened to him?

His wife is a doctor, too. He used to be a Democrat.

[LexVegas]

1. Which profession is free of heartless assholes? nt

[madokie]

2. I say that was simply a means to an end

the end being an elected official.

These dicks don't do anything for 'free' you can bet on that.

[madaboutharry]

3. Money and power corrupts a lot of people.

[riversedge]

4. I have read he is (was) a moderate repug. Times change.

[mdbl]

5. He's become a full-fledged member of the asshole party

was bound to happen.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

6. Maybe Price BIT him? n/m

[PA Democrat]

7. According to Wikipedia

Cassidy was first elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006 as a Republican. He had previously been a Democrat: Cassidy supported Michael Dukakis for president in 1988 and donated to the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Paul Tsongas (D-MA),[11][12] and to Louisiana Democrats Kathleen Blanco in the 2003 gubernatorial election and Mary Landrieu in her 2002 Senate campaign. In 2013, Cassidy called his donation to Landrieu a "youthful indiscretion," saying that she "got elected and fell into partisan politics... Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us." Since 2001, he has mostly contributed to Republican candidates, including Senator David Vitter. According to Cassidy, he switched parties after the extinction of conservative Democrats and because of his frustration with the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the public hospital system.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cassidy

[LonePirate]

8. He received new marching orders from his billionaire puppetmasters.

[Weekend Warrior]

9. There is a lot of money to be made at those facilities.

Their largest finders are normally local hospitals and they often pitch in big. My go-to charity is a local free clinic. The doctors and some of the staff are volunteers. They still have numerous very well paid positions. It is also a clout building exercise for some in their local community. That said, a well run free clinic at this time is worth its weight in gold.

[grantcart]

10. Whatever it was it seems to be conatgious

It reminds me of a conversation I was having with a Dr when I was serving as a teenager on the board of large inner city church a long time ago.

Somebody was asking the conservative Doctor blowhard, who everyone held in high esteem what he was up, to and he answered that he was seriously considering retiring (he wasn't seriously considering it) because all the paperwork that Medicaid was requiring was making it difficult for him. He had to hire another staff person to handle all of the paperwork that they were requiring.

I had three comments

1) I had read that doctors in the area were experiencing big growth at the time and I asked him if it wasn't true that his practice, which was well known hadn't in fact experienced a significant increase in gross revenue that was much more than what he paid for the staff person. He said yes.

2) That since it involved government expenditures wasn't he always complaining about Government waste and additional accountability required extra work and that if they didn't have better accountability he would be one of the first to complain about Government waste. He had to agree.

3) Finally where did he find support for the position that he was able to make so much money that he should quit at an early age and not heal people because he was pissed at how many papers had to cross his desk. That brought silence.

Part of the problem is that they being to think of themselves as being too important for normal considerations. They want people to just hand them the money so they can carry out their God mission.

[JI7]

11. Ben Carson, Ron Paul are doctors also

[nkpolitics1212]

12. The question should also be what happened to Senator Kennedy?

John Neely Kennedy-LA was a Democrat when he was elected to LA State Treasurer in 1999 and 2003 and ran for the US Senate in 2004 to suceed retiring Democratic US Senator John Breaux. Kennedy finished in third place behind David Vitter-R who got 51 percent in the blanket primary and Chris John-D who came in 2nd place in the blanket primary.
If LA Governor Jon Bel Edwards-D wins re-election in 2019- Any chance he runs for the US Senate in 2020 against Cassidy-R or 2022 against Kennedy-R.

[yankeepants]

13. He looks absolutely insane.

Keys to the pharmacy perhaps?

[JI7]

14. Making people rely on charity for health care is not good

[PA Democrat]

15. I'll bet that Medicaid reimbursement rates are really low in Louisiana.

The rates vary from state to state, and in states where rates are really low, many doctors don't want to take Medicaid patients. Maybe he resented the lack of patients with deep pockets and gold-plated health insurance plans. Maybe he worked at a hospital or in a practice that forced him to see Medicaid patients. Maybe he operated that clinic out of guilt for refusing to see poor and disabled Medicaid patients.

Whatever the reasons, he appears to have undergone a transformation much like the grinch- except in reverse. His heart appears to have shriveled to one third its original size.

[JI7]

16. Maybe he is racist

A lot of opposition to aca is becsuse it's one of Obamas legacy

[marylandblue]

17. Doctor tend to be conservative, with

higher income specialists like surgeons being more conservative than the relatively lower income doctors like GPs. Cassidy and his wife, as a married pair of.specialists probably had a combined income over $1,000,000 per year.

[3catwoman3]

18. I am a peds nurse practitioner in a private office.

At least 5 of the 9 pediatricians I work with are open Democrats. The managing partner is not, but knows I am, and the first day we worked together after the stolen election, she hastened to assure me that she had voted for Hillary. She is one of the most ladylike women I know, and I think she finds Trump completely horrifying. I thanked her for the way she voted.

Pediatrics is well known as being on the bottom of the income ladder in medicine, along with family practice. We don't have a lot of expensive procedures that are done in the office, which other types of practices do - things like EKGs, ultrasounds and Xrays. Immunizations, of course. We do rapid strep/flu/RSV swabs, urine dipsticks, fingerstick hemoglobins and total cholesterols, and a few miscellaneous things - pregnancy and chlamydia tests, freezing warts, removing ear wax. We take stitches out, but do not put them in - putting them in is considered surgery, for which pediatricians are not licensed. Parents of baby boys who choose circumcision are usually surprised to find out that the OB-GYN does those, not the pediatrician - just like stitches, it is surgery.

Pediatrics is all about compassion. We basically have 2 sets of patients - the kids AND the parents. Sometimes, the parents need more attention than the kids do. Standard appointment times are every 20 minutes for well or sick, unless either a parent tells the receptionists at the time the appointment is made that extra time is needed, or we know from experience that a patient typically needs more time. The price of sick visits varies with the complexity of the illness, the length of time spent with the patient, and the level of medical decision making (MDM) involved. Well visit charges vary with the age of the patient. There is no way to adjust for time spent - a healthy teenage boy in for his sports physical who has no questions or concerns and just wants his sports form signed so he can go to tryouts and is in and out in 15 minutes carries the same charge as a teenage girl with a laundry list of somatic and emotional complaints who takes an hour for her well visit, spending 30-40 minutes of it crying and talking nonstop.

The demands of electronic charting are awful. I typically take 2-3 hours worth of work home with me, because I need every moment of the face to face time to get the patient care done, and there is no time for 5-10 minutes of computer documentation after each patient. I would be hopelessly behind by about the third patient. I am on salary, so all that time at home is on my own dime, so to speak.

I am not able to understand meanspiritedness when it comes to being willing to deny health care to anyone. It's just not right.

[Stuart G]

20. Thank You for sharing with us...this view of your work..Inspiring as well as informative. Thanks..

[3catwoman3]

22. You're most wlecome.

I've been a PNP since 1976, so I've been at it for 41 years. That's a pretty damn long time.

In July, I got an email from my credentialing organization. The first certification exam was given in 1977, and I was one of those who took that first exam. I did not remember that it was the first time the test offered. The email said there are only 98 PNPs from that 1977 group who still hold active certfication. That doesn't seem like very many. I don't know how many may have died or retired. I got kind of teary-eyed reading that.

I'm 66. As of now, planning to hang it up by the time I am 70.

[spanone]

19. money/power the greatest drugs in the world

[Thrill]

21. Check his Donor list