The "Letter" is Back

• Dear Mr. President:
  
  During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, 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 ringtone.
  
  While glancing 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.
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  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 on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.
  
  It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
  
  Respectfully,
  STARNER JONES, MDSee More — with Randy Wood.

  

  
  

  
  

  I saw almost the same letter to the president about two years ago, placed on Facebook by a Tea Party enthusiast. This letter elaborates and refines the doctor's complaint by claiming the cell phone is new and has a new ringtone. In this new letter, the patient says she smokes heavily, and eats pretzels and drinks beer. Seemingly, this refutes in advance a justification for the patient on the grounds that she has just fallen into poverty. 

  
  

  The careful contrivance and the fact that the letter comes from a site called "Obama Makes Me Puke," leads me to  think it's a fraud. So, does anyone know of a Doctor Starner Jones, or who Randy Wood might be?