ObamaCare: Views from a Young Doctor
February 2, 2011 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Capitalism, Economy, Family values, Health care reform, Politics, socialism, Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, Culture Crisis, Dr. Starner Jones, entitlements, ObamaCare
Views of a young Doctor
The letter below is 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
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February 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
gumply
I am not a doctor but I am here to testify that the good doctor is telling you the truth.
I worked in the business office at the local hospital for twenty years. Medicaid patients had a habit of coming in to the emergency room in early evening or the wee hours in the morning. They would come in because they had an eyelash in their eye or similiar ridiculous reasons. They always had money for the pop and candy machines. The kids were usually dirty and looked like beggars while the mom’s were dressed to kill with the latest fashions.
I remember one young lady that was fit to be tied because she was forced to go to the local University to get educated so she could support herself and she was upset because she had a new boyfriend and he couldn’t go with her. She said the only good thing about the move was that there would be a lot of men around and that interested her. My kids went to school the hardway working, scholarships, grants and loans, this ingrate was given the opportunity for a free education and all she could think of was more men to sleep with.
Then I had another one that was trying to get pregnant again (no husband) so she could get a bigger home with more bedrooms.
And then we had the welfare families that encompassed generations. Sometimes two and three generations. The girls would get pregnant at 15 or 16 and go out on their own and live off of welfare with all its benes forever. On and On it went.
I could go on for hours with the stories but I am getting depressed.
And these are the people that we are suppose to take care of according to the liar in cheat.
There were legitimate cases and no one gets upset about the people that run into hard times and need to be helped but in twenty years those families were few and far between and they were seldom lifetime members on the dole.
February 3, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Stothes
We have both a healthcare and a culture crisis.
February 4, 2011 at 5:53 am
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March 6, 2012 at 9:20 am
Shashana's Thoughts
I worked in the field also, assisting needy families. I was a resource to help them get some counseling and education so when thier welfare benefits ended in three years (if they had a new child) they could get a job instead of public assistance.
Out of all the young women I met with (who came in with more gold jewelry, tatoos, expensive clothes and hairstyles that I could not afford) only a few seemed to be interested in getting an education and taking care of themselves. One young lady said I will just have a child every three years. Many people don’t believe this to be true and so many jokes are made about it, but I lived it. So Kudos to the doctor that is telling it like it is and I hope he will be heard. However, the people who are making the laws also want to be “taken care of” when the rest of the country is suffering they are giving themselves raises and extra benefits.
“What we learn we practice and what we practice we become.”
Our government needs to set a better example of sacrifice, budgeting and NO dishonest practices. I know, in my dreams, But if I have hope that one voice can make a difference then maybe it will snow ball into many voices and what I can not do alone, we can do together. .