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A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« on: September 24, 2009, 03:25:22 PM »
Hi folks,

I have not checked out this source but the letter makes the point.  Knowing folks who have worked in emergency rooms and hearing many of their stories, even if this is made up, in most any large city in America we could likely walk in to the ER and see it first hand.

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This was written to the Clarion Ledger by one of our General Surgery residents at UMC.  I don't think he could've illustrated this more perfectly!!  And, I 100% agree with him!!!!  Genie

 

 

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 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 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. It is 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

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2009, 03:56:11 PM »
RACIST!
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2009, 03:59:10 PM »
yeah....and she had a tricked out Cadillac parked in the hospital parking lot...
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2009, 05:00:46 PM »
This is almost identical to the same things we see at grocery stores, so it's easy to believe.

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2009, 05:04:15 PM »
This is a daily observation working in a hospital. 
Today, we had a woman with long fake nails, hair extentions, JUICY jeans (don't know if they were authentic or not), cellphone with a rhinestone cover and about 4 small children. Guess who is paying her medical bills?...but my hospital takes care of all patients regardless of their ability to pay..by LAW.

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2009, 05:53:23 PM »
A friend of mine is the Administrator for an ER in southwestern Ohio.  He says that sort of thing happens everyday.  It's gotten to the point of a running joke to the people in the ER.  Joke being, pick the insurance of this one or that one, as they walk in.
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2009, 06:41:42 PM »
I know a woman that had a heart attack...no insurance,,,,couldn't pay her bill ....and didn't.....but about the same time she bailed her dopehead daughter out of jail, paid the lawyer and the fine.....bought 2 exotic birds for $800 each and put up $4000 cash for her dog to have surgery.....but she couldn't afford to pay her hospital/doctor bill....I feel so sorry for her. :whatever:
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2009, 08:07:51 PM »
I know a woman that had a heart attack...no insurance,,,,couldn't pay her bill ....and didn't.....but about the same time she bailed her dopehead daughter out of jail, paid the lawyer and the fine.....bought 2 exotic birds for $800 each and put up $4000 cash for her dog to have surgery.....but she couldn't afford to pay her hospital/doctor bill....I feel so sorry for her. :whatever:

Hi,

What really galls me is this.  We need to destroy a system where 85% of Americans are happy with their health care because these poor disadvantaged folks don't have health insurance......

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2009, 08:14:15 PM »
This is almost identical to the same things we see at grocery stores, so it's easy to believe.

As I have mentioned before, my daughter works at Wal-mart.  She has seen folks buying groceries with food stamps with a large flat screen TV in the cart that they paid for with cash.

WTF???
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2009, 08:57:25 PM »
I used to work at a store and would see people come into my line and pay for the most expensive food on FS and then turn around and buy beer and cigarett's with cash.
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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2009, 10:21:11 PM »
RACIST!

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Hey white bunny you got no room to talk.  Should have a calico bunny for a picture.

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2009, 12:52:10 PM »
Hi,

Hey white bunny you got no room to talk.  Should have a calico bunny for a picture.

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but he's a male bunny... calico's are females.  you want him to be MORE confused about his preferences?

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2009, 07:18:44 PM »
but he's a male bunny... calico's are females.  you want him to be MORE confused about his preferences?

Hmmmm,

Thanks for the update.  I think it is the same with cats now that you mention it.

Then there should be one black and one white bunny.  Nah!  Never mind!

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Re: A most unique letter to the editor. Boy does it make the point
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2009, 08:33:24 PM »
I'm from Jackson. Born and raised. Joined the military to get OUT of that shithole. What he's saying it NOT uncommon. It's also the reason Jackson is a f'n hellhole and essentially a donut, with Jackson dying, and everything else around it, like Brandon, Madison, Pearl, Byram, Terry, Clinton, etc., thriving. People are getting the feck outta dodge there.

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