Life in a Fishbowl
(Continued from ToughTopics6:USCareerCrashes2)
In medicine, as in science and statistics, individual reports often are not considered statistically significant. Such anecdotal reports often are ignored. In a combatively chaotic era as ours, statistictical studies too often are re-worded and re-written to justify a political policy or funding. In these time, anecdotal reports are what remains to communicate the reality of life.
The individual in the fishbowl becomes too easy a target in chaotic times. Where previously individuals built careers and provided services to the welfare needy, groups of now-subsidized, less-needy fight for power and control of the subsidy money. Ironically, the compassionate social/medical welfare institutions are transformed into bitter battlegrounds. Originally, places of 'last resort' for the poor, sick or unfortunate, these become foci for ethnic/racial political power struggles for control of social work/medical welfare money. Medical centers become some of the most dangerous places to be.
What happens to the individual medical professional in this environment? Can embezzlers use ethnic/racial issues to take wages, salaries, and other money from individuals working in these systems? Can politically-aligned embezzlers use ethnic/racial issues in their quest to take or control government-subsidy money? Yes, they can and do.
How badly can an individual be hurt as ethnic/racial political group movements form gangs and attack the individual as a focus for their anger?
The Observer and The Observed.
Drop a stone into a quiet fishbowl. Eddies, small waves, spread from the point where the stone hit the surface of the water. Waves spread in ever widening circles.
Mobs too form from a smaller group, a gang. A gang may start with only one person. That one person wants what the observed person in the fishbowl has. The attacker may want whatever it is so much, or dislike the observed person so much, that the observer wants to destroy the observed person. The observer wants to take the observed's life, without the risk of an easily traceable criminal weapon like a knife or a gun.
This is how professional 'white collar' crime happens: with challenges to the observed's credentials, fraudulent use of the observed's credentials, false complaints about that professional to others who too begin to observe the observed, putting increased pressure on the observed at work.
There may be financial harassment by referring the observed's name to bill collectors or anonymous tax complaints. There also may be 'breaking & entering' at the observed's apartment or home, taking receipts and insurance policies, personal possessions.
There may be vandalized and stolen cars.
There may be weird or threatening telephone calls to the observed and family or friends of the observed from papers found in personnel files at work, school, or professional associations.
As computerized bill and tax collecting becomes more anonymous, observers posing as insurance agents or investigators may try to trace the observed's automobiles through DMVs or accounts through credit card companies or banks.
More complicated than a direct stabbing or shooting, the observer tries 'to take the life' of the observed at every opportunity to do so, causing expense, distraction, and hardship for the observed.
As the gang grows, as the mob widens, there are more and more 'white collar' troubles in the observed's life. These troubles take the money and career, sapping the energy, health and joy from the life of a happy individual striving for professional and financial stability and success, who had the misfortune of being observed.
In the professions, the motive is often money and prestige. The goal is to take the career and income due to the person observed. In medicine, this now involves insurance. Insurance has been a mechanism to pay medical bills, because costs often exceed the average person's willingness or ability to pay that day for each office or hospital visit. Much of current insurance, for example, the Medicaid welfare medical card is a delayed form of government subsidy as payment, delayed through government-mediated insurance/re-insurance agencies and 'privatized' government grant/loan quasi-companies.
Adding insurance, a 'third party', to the doctor-patient relationship and transaction, has added a financial buffer, but one which can be penetrated for profit by insurance agents, government, and government, by people unknown by the patient or the doctor.
A few of the observers stick, like the adhesive resin-seeping blooms of a ripe gum-tree plant. These observers and their contacts follow the observed through months, years, decades, constantly trying to 'build wealth' from the jobs, taxes, money and property of the observed. Many of these are 'the nameless/faceless', following anonymously through government or financial computer networks.
The horrible damage done to observeds by observer 'white collar' criminals often is ignored. Often only amounts embezzled from big company accounts like Enron and WorldCom are publicized by newsmedia.
Usual American Way of Life De-stabilized through Foreign Wars and Uncontrolled Immigration.
The usual more orderly American way of life in the US is being de-stabilized by overwhelming debt. Billions of dollars have been spent to meet demands of US Black Movement and welfare populations and foreign Black Muslim groups for economic and military help in power struggles or civil wars, in their African or Arab countries of origin. Billions more have been spent after huge uncontrolled immigration tsumani waves of 13-20 million to the US.
Millions of American citizens have been forced out of their jobs, businesses, careers, and now face financial hardship due to policies created by political or court supporters of new immigrants seeking work, business loans, and welfare in the US.
Medicine has been hit hard, not only because politicians seek tax money from the money usually paid for necessary medical care. Also, immigrants seek not only welfare medical care, but also the prestigious jobs, regular paychecks, and insurance opportunities they see as they visit US facilities for welfare medical care, disability checks, and other welfare services.
Continued on 'ToughTopics4:USCareerCrashes4'
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