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ER Dr's Letter
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10/18/2009 10:12:10 PM
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This was a "letter to the editor" in a recent Jackson , MS newspaper from an ER Doctor. I'm sure that this comment would be similar to that from any ER in this country.
Dear Sirs:
"During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, pierced tongue, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ring tone.
Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.
She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our president expects me to pay for this woman's health care?
Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on pleasures and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow. Don't you agree?
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MAJ USA RET
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10/18/2009 10:20:07 PM
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May I refer you to the story of the grasshopper and the ant?
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MAJ USA RET
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10/18/2009 10:27:34 PM
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On the frontier, this entitlement mentality would have been dead end.
Glued onto YOUR right hand is the first source of help when the going gets tough. You are NOT entitled to the help glued onto my right hand. Now, I might be inclined to offer you assistance... but, it is my prerogative to decide if you are deserving.
This government is legislating on the side of entitlement and obligating me... you... your children... and grandchildren to pay for it.
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