Critics say consequences of individual choice missing from reform debate
If you ask Dr. Steven Spady, there are two important words missing from the nation’s conversation about health reform: “personal responsibility.”
But Spady, a 54-year-old emergency physician in rural Kentucky, can’t talk about the topic right now. He’s too busy caring for people who he says don’t take care of themselves.
“I just had to go take care of man that left our hospital this morning and now has gone and got drunk and will suck up more health care dollars,” Spady wrote in a hurried e-mail late on a recent weeknight.
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2 comments:
Thats a slippery slope to go down and once we start,look out.Government should stay out ofpeoples personal life.
I completely agree with Dr. Spady. It is about time that people who choose to self-destruct pay their way. It makes me sick that some people can't pay for their medication or for their co-pay yet they faithfully cough up the money for a carton of cigarettes.
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