evidence: An old open letter by Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayan Health, opposing the service tax on healthcare, is being falsely shared on social media as a recent opposition by the doctor-entrepreneur against healthcare service tax by the Narendra Modi-government. [...] In the letter, addressed to 'aam aadmi' or the common man, Shetty spoke about the introduction of 5% service tax in healthcare in a 'recent budget', which he called as 'misery tax', and drew out its implications for patients availing major surgeries. [...] We did a keyword search with "devi shetty healthcare service tax misery tax", and changed the search parameters to look for posts from 2011.