Is America helping people that deserve it? I don't think so.

I found this as a News Feed on my Aunt Donna's facebook.


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 pack of cigarettes every day, eats only at fast-food take-outs, 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,
ROGER STARNER JONES, MD
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By: Richard Meckstroth



Here is my comment to this letter.



I don't know if any of you know this but when I had to have intestine removed and I was very ill, I had to have surgery to save my life. Of course, I was 22 years old at the time and worked for 6.75 an hour at Fat Dog Beverage Company and ...was trying my best to make it on my own. It was not easy and it was even harder when my ex-husband decided to finish college right around the same time. Anyway, before my ADD kicks in; I had no health insurance and was turned down for Medicaid because I made 6.75 an hour and drove a 1986 Volvo. I was told to sell my car, give up my little 20 year old trailer home, move in with my parents and then file for Medicaid. Okay, I was not asking for Medicaid "FOREVER" I just really needed help with this one surgery so I could keep living. Do you understand, I just wanted to live. I was a young mother, who worked her ass off, I had holes in my shoes and I even went to work when I should have been on bed rest. What pisses me off is that the government could have helped me; I was not a mooch, I was not unwilling to help myself, I just wanted to have surgery to stay alive. Well, thank you, America. I got lucky and the surgeon did the surgery out of human kindness and I am alive to tell you about it. Medicaid and the government only helps those who refuse to help themselves and the "little people" end up dying at home without a shred of dignity. I believe people should be helped that need it, not those that take it for granted.