Emergency Room Doctor On "Culture Crisis"

Pictured  above is a young physician by the name of  Dr.  Starner Jones. His short letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health  Care  Crisis".
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