And health care isn't on the list so others can pay for my poor health.
Dear Sirs:
"During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient
with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of
tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune
for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer
status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every
day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's
health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses.
It is a crisis of culture — a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend
money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase
health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because
someone else will always take care of me". Life is really not that hard.
Most of us reap what we sow.
Don't you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson , MS
I have other stuff to buy
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