Below is a
letter Dr. Starner Jones sent to the White House. His short letter to the White
House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" NOT a
"Health Care Crisis."
Here’s what
it says:
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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