p.atryk2
29.01.10, 16:17
List tego lekarza zostal odebrany jako glos pewnej czesci
amerykanskiego spoleczenstwa, nie akceptujacej planow reformy
ubezpieczen prezydenta Obamy. Ponizej orginal:
"
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 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 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.
Starner Jones, MD
Jackson, MS"
"Kryzys kulturowy" o ktorym wspomnial autor ma przejawiac sie w
postawie "Bede robil co mi sie podoba w sprawie mojego zdrowia-to
spoleczenstwo za to zaplaci, nie ja."
Jak widac, Amerykanie (procz bezposrednio zainteresowanych) bronia
sie przed takim mysleniem.
Polacy zas podniesli je do rangi aksjomatu, IMPO.
Myle sie?
