I’d returned to work, only to be confronted by a barrage of bureaucratic nonsense. My field is overtaken by bureaucracy. Some twenty years ago, the tipping point in healthcare was attained, and the rapid slide into mediocrity and beyond began to pick up steam.
Citizens were fed up with healthcare, a complicated forest where the average Joe reverted to being a hunter-gatherer for something - anything! that could protect their well-being. They also wanted to know what it cost.
Twenty, thirty years later, what citizens seemed to want hasn’t moved off the launch pad, and all the while, a plague of Quality Evaluators and Assurance Monitors set upon American healthcare, deepening a slide into an abyss that offers no ledges to grasp onto.
In came the hucksters, the shysters, the snake-oil pushers and the generally incompetent who live by shooing off any protectors of the herd and get the sheep to themselves.
There seems to be a blindness to nonsense pervading the world, and now worst in medicine and healthcare. People wouldn’t get what they get if they had what Ernest Hemingway observed about writing:
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
Same for a good citizen; but it seems that the detectors are clogged by a nationwide predilection for snapping up BS if it’s in a fancy package. Those out to sell the fancy packages love it. The populace has been groomed for gullibility by advertising, numbed by nonsense, and seems willing to believe anything that resonates with the patter of the snake-oil vendor. If someone’s not touting it, it must be bad - a conspiracy of the Bad People who are our Enemies.
I think it goes beyond a weakness, and resembles an addiction. There seems to be a rush in the crowd of sheep-like people who luxuriate in the confinement and control provided by a cult. Nowadays, in America, I see more cult-following behavior that would have driven the WWII generation back to arms.
I ask people - what is so good about your healthcare now? Are you achieving what all civilizations seek, the prevention of disease and maintenance of health? Or do you really throw in with the salesmen like Dr. Oz who are out to satisfy your whims, but not save your life?
This is a walk-off scrawl while I get ready for work. I hope I got the spelling right, and the flow of thought is rather bumbled and blurred. But I just had to put down my thoughts on BullS Dependency Disorder.