ER experience

[tm3]

thought this was interesting enough to pass along:

"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 ringtone. 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?"

STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson , MS


A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw

 

[getyopopcornready]

People pay for what they value.. Some people actually value expensice cars, shoes, etc.. more than their health

 

[BearCat204]

People pay for what they value.. Some people actually value expensice cars, shoes, etc.. more than their health

Not until they are in dire need of that health care, then they expect someone else to pay for it

 

[getyopopcornready]

Not until they are in dire need of that health care, then they expect someone else to pay for it

Right. They believe they can spend money on everything they like and whatever it is they need they can just get from the government.. Sickens me to see ppl do that because they actually do get by with doing that.. Some get by better than some middle class

 

[TXA&M07]

Well in that case popcorn, I value not having a car payment for my jeep, and value not having to pay for daycare for my daughter when she gets here in January, and I value my time that I spend cleaning offices here in College Station to make extra money, and I value the lawnmower I am wearing out mowing lawns on the weekends during the summer.

Its garabage. Nobody is going to look after me if I cant make a payment becuase my wife and I work our arses off, live within our means, and do extra stuff to help us out in the long run while we still have time.

 

[TXA&M07]

I've got lots of values, but the one I am can say I value the most is a damn good work ethic. So I guess I got that going for me, which is nice.

 

[joevol320]

I've got lots of values, but the one I am can say I value the most is a damn good work ethic. So I guess I got that going for me, which is nice.

you'll need that work ethic, because you'll be working alot to pay for everyone's healthcare.

 

[TXA&M07]

no need to remind me, but thanks.

 

[JTrainDavis]

Not until they are in dire need of that health care, then they expect someone else to pay for it

Pretty much. It's a cultural deal, with a reliance on gov't for necessities so all income can be spent on bling. Get with the program bearcat.

 

[BearCat204]

Pretty much. It's a cultural deal, with a reliance on gov't for necessities so all income can be spent on bling. Get with the program bearcat.

Yup, I was fortunate to be stationed in New Orleans during Katrina and witnessed the "government cards" that a lot of folks got that decided that it was important to spend that money on some DUBS.