Health Care In Perspective : It's The Culture Stupid!

Here is letter to the President from a doctor concerning what the real problem is with health care in America. Our culture is driving our decline. A culture of dependency

I believe this is on the mark as most anyone will witness this decline in their own communities. The actions of people that complain the most are the ones, for the most part, that can not control their own lives. Self control, apparently, is not part of the mind set of those most in need of it.

Taking responsibility for our own actions is key to bring back America from the ash heap of history. Step up to the plate and take a swing - if we let someone else bat for us, we will never get to first base let alone home plate!!

Starner Jones - MD

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 the patients 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