I would rather have whole cure assurance than health care insurance.
Health care is a hot topic today. Most people realize the debate is not really about health care, or insurance reform; it’s more about economics. Economics is an interesting word and deserves as much if not more scrutiny than the word health. Each of these two words, health and economics, have meanings, within our minds. These words have no meaning whatsoever outside Psyche. Health economics is a purely human convention. And, if we dive down into the root Logos of Psyche, health economics becomes wholistic household management.
Our word health is derived from the Middle English hal which translates into Modern English as “whole.” Economics is derived from the Greek oikonimika and translates to “the science of household management” (Websters).
Health Economics > Wholistic Household Management
Insurance. Or, assurance? There is no insurance, or assurance, against illness and disease. There are, however, for the most part, cures. And, there can be some semblance of insurance, and assurance, about cures. Many cures are really just care; for the most part, the core of cure is care. Dependent on the style of household management available in the country, cures, and care, is available, to some degree or another. Generally, in a capitalistic society, that which is needed, such as a cure, or care, becomes a commodity, sold in the marketplace to be purchased by consumers. Competition within a capitalistic society tends to keep commodities at market value. In a social society, a necessary commodity is commonly made available to all who are in need. Competition and market value are not introduced into the equation. Although America is a capitalistic society, it is still a society and does include common social services available to all. The conflict over health care insurance reform is about where on that continuum it should be placed.
The current health care insurance reform debate in The United States of America is a socio-cultrual conflict within the national psyche as it strives to redefine itself; call it growing pains- from adolescence to early adulthood. The ethos and logos of “care” witihin the national adolescent psyche is struggling to emerge as something re-formed in early adulthood. It’s a national developmental crisis; a national psyche-logos transformation.
Change is difficult, at best. More commonly, change is resisted, avoided, fought against…As people, we tend to prefer the familiar, no matter how ineffective or miserable it might make us. The new is an unknown, unpredicatable, anxiety producing. Fortunately, change is inevitable…and there are those who inspire us to change, to move ahead, to leave the familiar; otherwise we’d still be arguing over whether or not t o venture across the seas and nobody would have a cell phone…..
