First, a misnomer: the “Affordable Care Act” ISN’T, particularly for the American Taxpayers who are FUNDING it.
[An aside: you know, honest to God, I really do conjure that the bulk of what Rush Limbaugh terms “Low Information Voters” believe that the government is the source, the fount, of all income — and not the Mark I, Model I American Taxpayer. America has, sadly, become Brain-Glazingly Ignorant within the past few generations. Too many alleged Americans believe that their governmental Free Cheese grows on trees.]
I ruminate because of Old NFO‘s recent blogpost involving “My Medical Appointment.”
Please read it before continuing.
With that in mind, in re doctors now apparently asking patients about their firearms during a medical consultation that has and should have nothing to do with firearms, I posit a few questions for my ever-intelligent readers:
1. Are you or have you been posed any questions about firearms during a recent medical visit?
2. What was your answer?
3. Are these questions lawful?
4. Are you legally required to answer them?
5. What statutes are involved? Provide citations.
Because, up to this point, much has been written that I suspect is hearsay, unsupported and/or otherwise anecdotal from other sites.
Please, I ask, if you have answers to the above questions, kindly provide situations and citations and statutes.
BZ
P.S.
Excellent Forbes.com article about the issue, here.