Fw: another subversive Fairy Tale

The fpollowing is going around as a "True Story".  It is actually another attack on honest, hard working Americans. 

After the "Doctor's" signiture I have written a short response. 

 

 

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 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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My response:

 

    Well         Starner Jones, MD.  Please remove your head from up your butt and take another look around this United States of America. 

You make your case against decent health care for all Americans by one extreme, and most likely made up story.  You claim that you had a patient in the emergency room 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. 

So Doctor Jones, how would you like it if I compared you and all doctors to some greedy, elitist doctor who always checks your bank account before he checks your pulse? 

Look around you, if you managed to pull your head out, and see the millions of people who are hard working, doing the right thing, trying to raise their children to be good citizens, struggling to pay inflated rents and house payments and rising food costs, and explosive medical costs while they are being ground into the ground by the likes of Bank America and A.I.G. and a president who believes that it's better to buy off the super rich than to reach out to the common folk.  You are a disgrace to your profession, if you really are a doctor.  Besides, how can you read charts with your head up your ass? 

 

Curious Carl