September 16, 2010
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Well worth some thought
Something I just read on FB
Pictured is a young physician by the name of Dr. Roger Starner Jones. His short... two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis"..
It's worth a quick read:
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 ringtone.
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 pack of cigarettes every day, eats only at fast-food take-outs, 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 in 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,
ROGER STARNER JONES, MD
If you agree...pass it on.
Comments (7)
LMBO! He has soooo got that right! Not only that but there was a story on CNN last night about people turning down jobs because they are totally comfortable with their unemployment checks. They just do the interviews and get their paper signed that they have to turn in. When offered the job they say 'no thanks'.
If they made it so the unemployment office *knew* they were turning down work and cut off their benefits I'm sure the story would change. This country is screwed up!
I DO NOT agree.
No system is perfect,that's a pipe dream.
After my foot got fucked I had a clot go up my leg to my lungs...thought I was going to die.Called 911.
Ambulance came, hospitalized for 6 days, had 6 tests done on my lungs. I smoke a pack of 25 king size a day.
A friend of mine, in Wisconsin, her mother went through the same, same six tests, just tests mind you...no surgery. And six days in hospital.
my cost...here in Canada...nothing.Zero.
her cost in the USA?....250,000 dollars. A quarter of a million dollars for TESTS!! They lost their home, and their daughters college fund.
I am all for patriotism, my dear friend, but ask yourself why the USA is the only industrialized country in the entire WORLD without universal health care.
Do you think the whole world is wrong and you are right?
rent the movie "Sicko".
@Bricker59 - Regardless of your opinions, please watch your language. You are speaking to a lady, and you are speaking to my mother. I would appreciate it if you would bear that in mind when choosing your language.
Thanks P Obrien!!!!
Bricker, we have people coming to the USA because if they stay in Canada they will die from lack of treatment. (I have relatives living there.) We have people coming from other countries, especially the wealthy who can afford to come here to get the surgeries etc. that they can't get in their country. No, the system in America isn't wonderful by any means but it is better than so many other countries that I hear about.
I think anyone getting welfare should be drug tested etc. My daughter and her children need help so badly but they can't get anything. There are times there is no food in their house, no toliet paper you name it. But they don't "qualify". They all work minimum wage jobs and go to school but still no help. I see people with food stamps etc. driving better cars than we drive and with more jewerly etc. than I would ever think of having.
Something is very wrong with the system.
@P_Obrien - My apologies. I have nothing but the highest respect for your mum.You can ask her.I meant no disrespect to her.
@P_Obrien - Thank you
Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a
committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a
Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be
signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a
treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon
general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke; What the
heck could possibly go wrong?
@ugotafriend - That about sums it up. In a nutshell if they would all fit.
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