This was his "letter to the editor" in August 29th Jackson, MS newspaper.
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, 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 Congress 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 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
News flash. This dude isn't even a member of the American Medical Association. He is not a board certified doctor. Where is this "elsewhere" that he went to school. Grenada? If he had gone to a fine medical school, don't you think that would have been part of his letter? Of course it would. Doctors have egos. He's not even smart enough to know that even without Medicaid, this woman's health care would be paid for because hospitals jack up rates to private insurers to pay for the uninsured. Don't get sick in Mississippi.
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