Part of the problem…
Diagnosis, prognosis and cure in just three (3) short paragraphs!
If you doubt any part of what Dr. Jones says, go visit your local
hospital emergency room as an observer for an hour or so some Friday or
Saturday night.
Pictured below is 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
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.
