The Hippocratic Oath slip was intentional, medical facilities are the biggest hypocrites where they have become more concerned with dwindling medical cover than patient care.
The medical care is suppressed by the amount you can still pay from such schemes.
Agree wholeheartedly that we must rid the world of parasites of the money economy.
It's okay - as I said in the post, last that she was doing all right, and heading towards recovery. But as I also said there, that region is literally the only in the entire country where the ambulance-service is still working: hence many, many other people would have had it even worse than she did.
The real challenge is the 'white-anting' that the money-politicians have been doing for decades: all the want to do is to force the whole thing to break down irretrievably so that they can push the disastrous US model on the country instead, and hence make vast profits for themselves. They have no concept of service, especially service-to-others: it's a completely alien notion, one that they comprehend at all. Sad; desperately sad. And so, so pointless. Oh well
My mother had a situation where she was suffering from cancer and required ICU care, I was phoned by the hospital to advise me that I would have to come and take her home as her medical cover had been depleted.
We took her home where she passed on quietly during the same night she was discharged.
So much for the Hypocritical Oath which used to be a baseline for human care.
It is just criminal the way that people are seen as cash generators, and bled dry before being disposed of to avoid hospital death statistics.
Yikes... I'm very, very glad I've mostly lived in countries with universal healthcare, and avoided being ill in the ones that don't have it. The idea that we have to pay out at the one time when, by definition, we won't be in a fit condition to earn for it - well, it's both absurd and obscene. Kind of like the absurdity of debtor's prison, really.
Again, though, your mother's story illustrates yet again why we _must_ find a way to eradicate the money/possession 'economy'. If there's no means to parasite from people in that way, we might actually be able to bring that obscenity to a halt.
For your amusement, it's actually the Hippocratic Oath, but Hypocritical Oath is probably all too real these days... :-( Oh well.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother's terrible ordeal, Tom, but (sadly) not surprised. The more you look at the erosion of our public services under the guise of letting the 'efficiency' of 'the market' do it's magic, the clearer it should be that market principles do not work for public services. In fact, I have come to believe that market principles work hardly anywhere, with the exception maybe of luxury goods and services - the kind of things nobody really needs but can feel good wasting money on. Anything that is an essential service cannot be left to the erosive forces of the free market.
I agree with your position on possessionism and all the damage that it has done. Unfortunately, our entire system of power, law and politics was built to sustain this delusion, so we won't get rid of it easily. Maybe we could start by declaring all essential public services to be market-free reserves instead of free market resources, so that any money-making schemes in those areas is forbidden by law.
Thanks, Bard - and yeah, as you say, not a surprise.
Wearing my enterprise-architecture hat, this whole miserable mess is a really good example of how the distortion or hijack of the vision for an enterprise-vision turns it into a different enterprise: in this case, a shift from an enterprise whose vision was literally "care from cradle to grave" to one that is now a combination of 'a machine for making money' and/or 'a system for punishing most people for the crime of existing'.
(Another recent example of the consequences of a vision-hijack is the Southwest Airlines debacle in the US Midwest over Christmas arising entirely from abandoning Herb Kelleher's tightly-managed vision of "the best low-cost air service", with an emphasis on _service_, to the post-Kelleher CEOs' apparent vision of 'cut costs everywhere to maximise short-term profit'.)
The other crucial point, of course, as that the so-called 'free market' isn't free at all: it's riddled with asymmetries, monopolies, one-sided contracts, kickbacks and other corruption of all kinds, artificial-scarcities and, of course, a culture of lies upon lies upon lies. Even before your "declaring all essential public services to be market-free reserves", probably the first requirement would be to define lying in either business or politics as a criminal offence: that at least might give us some chance to clean up this fetid mess...
Hi Tom,
The Hippocratic Oath slip was intentional, medical facilities are the biggest hypocrites where they have become more concerned with dwindling medical cover than patient care.
The medical care is suppressed by the amount you can still pay from such schemes.
Agree wholeheartedly that we must rid the world of parasites of the money economy.
What a terrible situation to have to go through, sorry that your mother had to go through that Tom.
We really do need more nurses and doctors saving lives and providing essential services and less performing cosmetic surgery.
The vanity of the rich is robbing the elderly from the care that they require.
Extremely sad situation.
It's okay - as I said in the post, last that she was doing all right, and heading towards recovery. But as I also said there, that region is literally the only in the entire country where the ambulance-service is still working: hence many, many other people would have had it even worse than she did.
The real challenge is the 'white-anting' that the money-politicians have been doing for decades: all the want to do is to force the whole thing to break down irretrievably so that they can push the disastrous US model on the country instead, and hence make vast profits for themselves. They have no concept of service, especially service-to-others: it's a completely alien notion, one that they comprehend at all. Sad; desperately sad. And so, so pointless. Oh well
My mother had a situation where she was suffering from cancer and required ICU care, I was phoned by the hospital to advise me that I would have to come and take her home as her medical cover had been depleted.
We took her home where she passed on quietly during the same night she was discharged.
So much for the Hypocritical Oath which used to be a baseline for human care.
It is just criminal the way that people are seen as cash generators, and bled dry before being disposed of to avoid hospital death statistics.
Yikes... I'm very, very glad I've mostly lived in countries with universal healthcare, and avoided being ill in the ones that don't have it. The idea that we have to pay out at the one time when, by definition, we won't be in a fit condition to earn for it - well, it's both absurd and obscene. Kind of like the absurdity of debtor's prison, really.
Again, though, your mother's story illustrates yet again why we _must_ find a way to eradicate the money/possession 'economy'. If there's no means to parasite from people in that way, we might actually be able to bring that obscenity to a halt.
For your amusement, it's actually the Hippocratic Oath, but Hypocritical Oath is probably all too real these days... :-( Oh well.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother's terrible ordeal, Tom, but (sadly) not surprised. The more you look at the erosion of our public services under the guise of letting the 'efficiency' of 'the market' do it's magic, the clearer it should be that market principles do not work for public services. In fact, I have come to believe that market principles work hardly anywhere, with the exception maybe of luxury goods and services - the kind of things nobody really needs but can feel good wasting money on. Anything that is an essential service cannot be left to the erosive forces of the free market.
I agree with your position on possessionism and all the damage that it has done. Unfortunately, our entire system of power, law and politics was built to sustain this delusion, so we won't get rid of it easily. Maybe we could start by declaring all essential public services to be market-free reserves instead of free market resources, so that any money-making schemes in those areas is forbidden by law.
Thanks, Bard - and yeah, as you say, not a surprise.
Wearing my enterprise-architecture hat, this whole miserable mess is a really good example of how the distortion or hijack of the vision for an enterprise-vision turns it into a different enterprise: in this case, a shift from an enterprise whose vision was literally "care from cradle to grave" to one that is now a combination of 'a machine for making money' and/or 'a system for punishing most people for the crime of existing'.
(Another recent example of the consequences of a vision-hijack is the Southwest Airlines debacle in the US Midwest over Christmas arising entirely from abandoning Herb Kelleher's tightly-managed vision of "the best low-cost air service", with an emphasis on _service_, to the post-Kelleher CEOs' apparent vision of 'cut costs everywhere to maximise short-term profit'.)
The other crucial point, of course, as that the so-called 'free market' isn't free at all: it's riddled with asymmetries, monopolies, one-sided contracts, kickbacks and other corruption of all kinds, artificial-scarcities and, of course, a culture of lies upon lies upon lies. Even before your "declaring all essential public services to be market-free reserves", probably the first requirement would be to define lying in either business or politics as a criminal offence: that at least might give us some chance to clean up this fetid mess...