Today I got an email with the following text - an example of how the view can be focussed on one extreme sample to make one's point and keep the readers from questioning this view.

This is "lying without a lie" - because it is just one out of a million cases. All the other cases - where recipients are really in need - are neglected, suppressed, concealed.

E-Mail text:

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"Why pay for the care of the careless?"
"Motivation, not entitlement, is the key to personal success and
happiness in life."

Diagnosis, prognosis and cure . . .
. . . in just three (3) short paragraphs !!!

If you doubt any part of what Dr. Jones says, go visit your local hospital emergency room as an observer for an hour or so some Friday or Saturday night.

Below is a letter written by a young physician, Dr. Starner Jones.

His short three-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis". It's worth its quick read:

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, 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 ring tone. While reading 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 costly pack of cigarettes every day 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 for luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. This is what happens when we have a culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me." Most of us reap what we sow.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

(Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, nation's health care difficulties will disappear.)

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snopes.com:
Dr. Starner Jones - Correctly Attributed