Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the
pleasure of
Evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold
tooth,
Whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly
Tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who
chatted
On a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring tone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that
her payer
Status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the
patient
Informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes
every
Day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's
health care?
I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of
a shortage of
Quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a
"crisis of culture",
A culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on
luxuries and vices
While refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase
health
Insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I
can do
Whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility
and dependency,
You'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties
will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD
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