COMMENTS

                      HEALTH CARE CRISIS 

                          Thursday, March 4, 2010 
                                  An Email from Deb Day
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I didn't check snopes, but it couldn't have been said better! 
Amazing how quickly he was able to get it all said!!! 
A letter from a young physician by the name of Dr. 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 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 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, 
STARNER JONES, MD