Nor am I an ass. Nor am I without compassion. Nor am I without understanding for those in need.
In fact, I enjoy very much helping those unable to help themselves.
It's the large and growing crowd of Americans who feel they are owed everything for nothing. Who feel they can go out and buy 1/2 million dollar homes on $50k a year salaries and then cry hardship when their 50 year interest only mortgage comes due. It's the able bodied folks who make concerted decisions to quit working for a living and start mooching off others, taking advantage of a safety net that was put in place for those who needed it.
When you walk a day in my shoes and experience the incredible abuse of resources we as health care professionals are asked to divvy up. To provide unlimited health care to able bodied men and women who have milked the government coffers for all its worth, while the toil around with their iPhones and fancy jewelry. I help point out day after day the incredible abuse that hard working Americans are asked to pay for on a daily basis. Those who feel entitled to steal the sweat and tears of others. You and me who work hard every day to make a living.
Now, wait until health care becomes a right. The question we will all have to ask for ourselves will be. Where do you draw the line in the sand? People often like to refer to the "rich" and say, "When is enough, enough?" When have you made enough money? When have you made enough to redistribute your earnings to those less inclined or able to take risk and sacrifice to make it big?" So I reverse that line of thinking on the the "poor" and say to all those in favor of universal government run health care.
"When is enough, enough. When have you had enough health care. When have you had enough health care on the financial backing of the "rich" to stop asking those who take risks and sacrifice to give more. At what point do you stop taking and start giving back to a system in which the bottom 50% of recipients pay no income tax? If we can't set limits on health care delivery as a right, we will enter a fiscal black hole many times larger than the 30 trillion dollar Medicare fiasco currently looming. If you want universal government run care, when do you say no, and who decides? When is enough, enough?
Questions to ponder. And while you're pondering,I've decided to come out of the 70's closet. Enjoy a couple of Halloween pictures of Happy and his lady. Yes. the mustache is real. And no, it's not a part of Happy's daily existence.
All that chest hair and such a puny mustache! ;-)
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I've been reading your blog for a few weeks now and you sound exactly like me. What I wonder is, how do you stand it when your co-workers enable the behavior these entitlement folks? I'm a nurse and it drives me crazy. I also have a real hard time keeping my mouth shut around these patients and often I do lose it a little and say things that would probably get me reprimanded. Mind you, these patients get the proper care from me, I'm not stupid. I honestly think this whole entitlement society is going to make me get an ulcer or I'm going to blow my top or something! How do you cope? I've got to do this for 26 more years, as I can't retire until I'm 67, and that's if there's any social security left in 26 yrs! I honestly think some of these people don't even realize that their payor source is different from ours or that their healthcare is paid for by us or that it's something that should be temporary and at least a little embarassing. Any coping advice you could give to us healthcare workers would be helpful, please!
ReplyDeleteLove the groovy pics!
ReplyDeleteif by "sense" you mean that you are talking "preening self-congratulatory praise" about how hard-working you are as opposed to those ungrateful people who don't make as much as you do. People like you choose to look past all of the advantages you were given that others were not and you ignore the good luck that you enjoyed in your haste to pat yourselves on the back and give self-serving lectures about how important it is for you to keep your precious money and not give any of it back to the country which allowed you to earn it in the first place. I'm glad you're not my doctor.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, you two are adorable. Almost as cute as your puppies.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 932, i think you miss the point. i come from a different political perspective from happy, and i still feel the same as a physician regarding patients who are abusing the system.
ReplyDeletei had a patient 3-4 weeks ago who was discharged with prescriptions for antibiotics (2 days worth, as she had been in the hospital for 3 days) and diuretics... she filled neither, returned to the emergency department. when i saw her and asked what happened, if she filled the meds; her response was "are you going to pay for it?" i said no. she told me i was arrogant and wanted another doctor!
its fine for her to have her own opinion, its fine for another doctor to take care of her... but when patients are taken care of at no cost to them, don't go and get the meds, and come back... you and i paid for the 1st visit and we're paying for the 2nd. because she and her family couldn't come up with any money.
but she never even went to see how much the medications cost. and when referred to social work and financial counselors, she wouldn't fill out the papers.
at some point, enough is enough.
back to the point of the post though, happy, i'm glad to know you don't have a mullet!
Great costumes, although you guys needed more platforms in your shoes. Meanwhile, should you run out of music to dance to, here's some help: http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fpics.yemii.com%252Fswedish-dance-bands.html
ReplyDeleteAnon 932 is clearly an idiot who does not work for a living, at least not in healthcare or any service job.
ReplyDeleteI am having PVC's already thinking about how much worse this problem will get after the Messiah wins tomorrow. How much longer can we spoon feed and coddle malingering idiots while the rest of us work our asses off and put up with their abuse and entitlement mentality. God help us all!
Patti, RN
Hey Patti, I suggest you treat your PVCs the same way I'm planning to medicate my chest pain - with a case of corona, a dozen limes, and a dozen ice cream drumsticks.
ReplyDeleteAs I am watching the election returns and reading Happy's post I am thinking more and more of Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand). At some point in time the producers will stop producing, government revenues will shrink, and there will not be enough of the "rich" from which the "poor" will be able to take. A country truly gets the government it deserves.
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