The Quality of our Institutions - Health and Social Services
Continuing on our theme, here are Robert Greenleaf's thoughts on the quality of the health and social services institutions in the United States. I think you'll agree, not much has changed from Greenleaf's assessment over 30 years ago:
"Health and social services retain too much from the days when magic potions were administered to banish symptoms. As a consequence, the extensive knowledge we now have about how to live in better total health is effectively denied to large numbers of people, and for many the longer life expectancy made possible by curbing disease is too often an empty achievement. The skyrocketing cost of such health care as we have is proof of the inadequacy of our system of health-care delivery."
"Health and social services retain too much from the days when magic potions were administered to banish symptoms. As a consequence, the extensive knowledge we now have about how to live in better total health is effectively denied to large numbers of people, and for many the longer life expectancy made possible by curbing disease is too often an empty achievement. The skyrocketing cost of such health care as we have is proof of the inadequacy of our system of health-care delivery."
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