ocrenter,
I don’t disagree with anything you are saying but I believe you are looking at an extremely complex problem in an overly simplistic way. The local (individual) dysfunctional behavior manifest throughout the health care system is tied into the over all dysfunction present systemically. In other words, what’s happening in health care is intimately tied into what’s happening in housing, government, and in every other corrupt institution. All things are inter-related. How can it be any other way?
The point of my post was to inform those benignly unaware that they must take responsibility for their own care. As to your point about blanket statements; I would still contend that it is nearly impossible to be honest and profitable simultaneously. Perhaps the great tragedy of our time is the self-imposition of what I have always referred to as the ‘corporatisation of the individual,’ i.e., individuals who have internalized bottom-line mentality as a strategy for economic survival.
