This works on so many levels... The caduceus snakes becoming dollar signs. The ill-gotten gains literally gotten from people who were deliberately made ill and thus gains were ill-gotten from their illness. The gold eagle which is supposed to represent the birth of liberty being turned into a debased profit vehicle. Well done sir, this picture paints and thousand words.
Wow, TriTorch, your keen observations decode the symbology exactly. You describe the message the artwork is intended to convey better than I could. Much appreciated.
The credit is 100% yours, Ned. Thank you for painting one of the greatest motives of this obscenity/crime against mankind in such sharp relief! This just focused my view, like a magnifying glass, on what we are up against. Bravo!
I am normally for the market, but in medicine this clearly does not work. At all.
Medicine has been corrupt for hundreds of years.
My solution is co-op health insurance run by us, by "patients" for patients according to our needs.
What do you think? If we can have electric coops and water supply coops, why not health insurance? In the days of the fraternal societies, something akin to this existed. The societies hired and fired the doctors who served their membership according to what the locals wanted. They had to be responsible to those they treated, instead of being responsible only to the medical associations.
That's an excellent proposal, erin, one that many people would support, as it allows for local, decentralized support tailored to a specific community. However, The Powers That Be prefer and impose a centralized system as it allows them to tailor for maximal profitability rather that positive patient outcomes.
Why would the gazillion dollar health care business would want to find a cure for anything. That would be a really poor business strategy.
Exactamundo!
This works on so many levels... The caduceus snakes becoming dollar signs. The ill-gotten gains literally gotten from people who were deliberately made ill and thus gains were ill-gotten from their illness. The gold eagle which is supposed to represent the birth of liberty being turned into a debased profit vehicle. Well done sir, this picture paints and thousand words.
Wow, TriTorch, your keen observations decode the symbology exactly. You describe the message the artwork is intended to convey better than I could. Much appreciated.
The credit is 100% yours, Ned. Thank you for painting one of the greatest motives of this obscenity/crime against mankind in such sharp relief! This just focused my view, like a magnifying glass, on what we are up against. Bravo!
I am normally for the market, but in medicine this clearly does not work. At all.
Medicine has been corrupt for hundreds of years.
My solution is co-op health insurance run by us, by "patients" for patients according to our needs.
What do you think? If we can have electric coops and water supply coops, why not health insurance? In the days of the fraternal societies, something akin to this existed. The societies hired and fired the doctors who served their membership according to what the locals wanted. They had to be responsible to those they treated, instead of being responsible only to the medical associations.
That's an excellent proposal, erin, one that many people would support, as it allows for local, decentralized support tailored to a specific community. However, The Powers That Be prefer and impose a centralized system as it allows them to tailor for maximal profitability rather that positive patient outcomes.
Thank you, Ned, for corroborating my hunch. I am thinking the idea needs developing... anybody wanting to pitch in is welcome. :-)
Eye injections for macular degeneration at $3000 a pop add up quickly!
Another winner, Ned!